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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) Hull house.
(b) Taylor house.
(c) Pushman house.
(d) Pullman house.

2. All of the following historical events played a role for William James becoming more active politically except ________.
(a) Lynchings in the South.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) Suppression of the Phillipine Independence Movement.
(d) Publication of 'The Will to Believe.'

3. Dewey and Holmes focused on the rights of _________ instead of the rights of the individual.
(a) Government.
(b) Laws.
(c) Society.
(d) Men.

4. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.
(a) George Herbert Mead.
(b) Florence Kelley.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Ellen Gates Starr.

5. Kallen was asked to prepare __________ manuscripts for publication in 1915.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Hall discredited several candidates for the professor of philosophy position, one was finally hired in __________.

2. In many societies in the early 20th Century the concept of ________ began to appear.

3. Pierce reviewed _________ written by John Dewey and was completely disgusted.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why was the fourteenth amendment added to the Constitution after the Civil War?

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

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

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

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

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