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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. Holmes and James ________ after their marriages.

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

3. When his salary was less than expected John Dewey decided to _________.

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

5. The United States was currently in the middle of a ________ and many employers were cutting wages.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Pierce think of his brother's book, "The Will to Believe" when he read it?

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

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

10. What did G. Stanley Hall do when he decided against getting a job immediately after following Morris to Germany?

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

The inequality of races was something many scientists set out to prove during the early days of America.

Part 1: Why do you think other races were immediately seen as being inferior?

Part 2: Do you think it's fair to start a scientific discussion with an answer already in mind? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think people still believe that races and the genetics of different races lead to inequality or the presumed superiority of whites? Why or why not?

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