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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. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) Francis Parker.
(c) George Morris.
(d) John Dewey.

2. ___________ did not believe he was a pragmatist, even though he held many of the same beliefs.
(a) Oliver Holmes.
(b) Benjamin Pierce.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) W.E.B. Dubois.

3. Holmes greatest achievement was __________.
(a) A series of books on monogenism.
(b) His Civil War accomplishments.
(c) His teaching appointments.
(d) The lecture series 'The Common Law.'

4. Many of the universities of the time were using the law enacted by ____________.
(a) The Executive Branch.
(b) The President.
(c) Congress.
(d) The Judicial Branch.

5. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.
(a) It is many directional.
(b) Things are connected loosely.
(c) Things progess in an ultimate and absolute way.
(d) It is many dimensional.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.

3. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.

4. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.

5. Cattell was fired from his job for _____________ another professor on his own personal time.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did the new theory of cultural pluralism seem to foster prejudice and discrimination?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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