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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. G. Stanley Hall studied New Psychology and received a PhD under _________ at Harvard.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) William James.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) George Morris.

2. Soon after he was fired from Johns Hopkins, Charles Pierce bought a farm with his new wife. He was subsequently fired from ________.
(a) The Coast Service.
(b) Harvard Law School.
(c) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(d) University of Chicago.

3. When Dewey's appointment for principal was withdrawn he left the university to go to __________.
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Chicago.

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

5. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.
(a) University of Edinburgh.
(b) Columbia Univeristy.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cultural ______________ seemed to foster prejudice and discrimination, though Kallen used the phrase in a book in 1924.

2. Holmes and James ________ after their marriages.

3. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.

4. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.

5. __________ was created with a grant from a personal estate with direction to create a university.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the greatest achievement of Holmes which occurred before he was 40 years old?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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