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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. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Staff created _______ in the poorest section of Chicago.
(a) Pushman house.
(b) Pullman house.
(c) Hull house.
(d) Taylor house.

2. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.
(a) William James.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Oliver Holmes.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

3. Students in Dewey's classes were taught by _______.
(a) Listening.
(b) Reading.
(c) Example.
(d) Observation.

4. __________ is the idea that people come at life from different places, and understand the world in different ways.
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Singularism.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Separatism.

5. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.
(a) George Herbert Mead.
(b) William James.
(c) William Rainey Harper.
(d) John Dewey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Targets of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of World War I included all of the following except __________.

2. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.

3. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.

4. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.

5. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did G. Stanley Hall do when he decided against getting a job immediately after following Morris to Germany?

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

3. What was the theory put forth by Holmes' lecture series, "The Common Law?"

4. What did Pierce think of his brother's book, "The Will to Believe" when he read it?

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

6. What was the new requirement of all students who enrolled in Harvard Professional Schools?

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

8. What was happened that made it difficult for Dewey to get into Chicago to start his new job?

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

10. Who are the two authors who both worked on a theory of pragmatism, though they were vastly different?

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