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

2. The organizer of the American Railroad Union was arrested ________.
(a) Three times.
(b) Four times.
(c) One time.
(d) Two times.

3. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.
(a) Grow.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Communicate.
(d) Learn.

4. In May 1918, Congress amended the law to become the Espionage and _________ Act.
(a) Financial.
(b) Educational.
(c) Sedition.
(d) Traitor.

5. An individual could not have a right or a freedom unless ___________ as a whole had it first.
(a) Society.
(b) The President.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The authority of _________ characterizes pre-modern societies, but not modern societies.

2. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.

3. Many of the universities of the time were using the law enacted by ____________.

4. Kallen was asked to prepare __________ manuscripts for publication in 1915.

5. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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