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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.

2. Dewey believed that prejudice was just a phase that a society needed to go through in order to get to the new societal ________.

3. Morris returned to the University of Michigan and _______ followed him.

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

5. Pierce used __________ daily because of the pain caused by cancer that ravaged his body.

Short Essay Questions

1. What would happen if Harper did not like something a teacher said during a lecture?

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

3. What did Dewey believe about mind and reality in his time after leaving Chicago?

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

5. Who created the University of Chicago though he stayed out of all areas except the financial area?

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

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

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

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

10. Why was the book, "The Process of Government," fairly obscure in the market?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pierce decided he wanted to create a theory and a law of randomness which would contradict Darwin and Laplace's theories.

Part 1: Why do you think randomness is an important idea to study?

Part 2: Do you think the human behavior can be predicted with statistics? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you believe the world has order or is everything completely random? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The main achievement of this time was the development of a modern life and a modern society.

Part 1: Why was it important for the society to develop into a more modern landscape during this time?

Part 2: Why do you think society didn't believe it was modern 'enough' during this time period?

Part 3: In what ways did society change from that period of time to the modern day today? Are we even more modern now? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Education is a strong character in this manuscript as well, helping to bring together the members of the Metaphysical Club.

Part 1: Why do you think education was so important to society during those times?

Part 2: Do you think education is more or less important today? Why?

Part 3: Why do you think so many great thinkers ended up at Harvard?

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