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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.
(a) Rockefeller.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) The public.
(d) The government.

2. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.
(a) Complexity.
(b) Decision making.
(c) Simplicity.
(d) Being practical.

3. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.
(a) Washington.
(b) Rockefeller.
(c) Parker.
(d) Chicago.

4. Dewey started the laboratory school because he believed that Chicago public schools had a _________ on children.
(a) Negative.
(b) Depressive.
(c) Bias.
(d) Positive.

5. Pierce also believed that humans get their ideas of right and wrong from __________.
(a) God.
(b) Internal sources.
(c) Laws.
(d) Other humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.

2. Charles Pierce did not like James' or Dewey's version of his work and thus attempted to bring forth his own form called __________.

3. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.

4. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.

5. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kallen give up his religion at first, though he ended up returning later on?

2. Why was the idea of pluralism not received well by those who heard about it?

3. What did Pierce have to do because of the cancer that ravaged his body in his later years?

4. What would happen if Harper did not like something a teacher said during a lecture?

5. Why was Pierce fired from his job at Johns Hopkins University around January of 1884?

6. How were students taught at the laboratory school in Chicago by Dewey and the staff?

7. Who created the University of Chicago though he stayed out of all areas except the financial area?

8. What are modern societies led by, according to the studies of Holmes?

9. What is it said that pragmatism helps reformers, misfits, and geniuses do in their lives?

10. What was the greatest achievement of Holmes which occurred before he was 40 years old?

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