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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. Chicago at the time was in the middle of the _________ strike.
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Pullman.
(c) Government.
(d) Pushman.

2. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.
(a) Reformers.
(b) Geniuses.
(c) Misfits.
(d) Conformers.

3. President Gillman later fired all ________ faculty from the school effectively removing anyone teaching philosophy.
(a) Part-Time.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Metaphysical Club.
(d) Full-Time.

4. Dewey had a different take on stimulus and response that stated _________.
(a) They were not necessary for studying behavior.
(b) They were difficult concepts.
(c) They were dependent on each other.
(d) They needed to be studied separately.

5. Morris returned to the University of Michigan and _______ followed him.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) William James.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) Francis Parker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In May 1918, Congress amended the law to become the Espionage and _________ Act.

3. Despite his extensive training both at home and abroad Morris was unable to attain a professorship until offered one at __________.

4. Pierce believed that the universe was constantly evolving and trying to reach ___________.

5. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dewey believe about mind and reality in his time after leaving Chicago?

2. What did James finally comes to believe about the beliefs that people had?

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

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

5. Why did Pierce and his wife go to New York after he was fired from the Coast Survey?

6. What did Dewey and Holmes think about the idea of giving freedom to others?

7. Who created the Hull House in the poorest section of Chicago?

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

9. What did Randolph Bourne believe his purpose in life was, according to this book?

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

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