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

2. ___________ believed that mind and reality were abstract and a single process, humans use their ideas to cope in their environment.

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

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

5. Dewey studied ________ philosophy under Morris while studying at Johns Hopkins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

William Henry, Sr. always felt that he was at a disadvantage because he had no true and formal education.

Part 1: Why do you think William Henry, Sr. distrusted institutions so much?

Part 2: How do you think society values an education these days? Or don't they?

Part 3: Do you think Henry, Sr. would have had a better life had he had an education? Why or why not?

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

Morris was trying to decide how to reconcile science and faith in his own mind - a popular topic of discussion and study.

Part 1: Why do you think faith and science have a difficult time 'getting along' in terms of their ideas?

Part 2: Do you think that faith and science have common ground? Why or why not?

Part 3: Can science and father ever be reconciled? Why or why not?

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