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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. _________, after initially giving up his identity as a Jew, regained his religion and came up with the dual identity theory.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) W.E.B. Dubois.
(c) Alain Locke.
(d) Horace Kallen.

2. What was the organization that Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell created in 1915, similar to the AMA or the ABA?
(a) NAACP.
(b) UAW.
(c) AAUP.
(d) PETA.

3. Randolph Bourne believed his purpose in life was to find the ____________ in other people's theories and philosophies.
(a) Problems.
(b) Documentation.
(c) Benefits.
(d) Angles.

4. Charles Pierce did not like James' or Dewey's version of his work and thus attempted to bring forth his own form called __________.
(a) Pragmaticism.
(b) Pragmatics.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Pragmatism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jane Addams wrote an article comparing the opposing sides in the Pullman strike to __________.

2. Which amendment was created to give black people more rights and to protect them after the Civil War?

3. When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Morris allow Dewey to do as he was his star pupil and eventually good friend?

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

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

4. When Charles Pierce arrived at the school, what did he announce he was going to revive?

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

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

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

8. What did Dewey do after leaving the University of Michigan at the age of thirty-five?

9. What was never the intention of the American Association of University Professors though it ended up being the case anyway?

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

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