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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 4 | Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New Hampshire.

2. William James believed that people have beliefs because the object of belief has been shown to have _________.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Value.
(c) Consequences.
(d) Colors.

3. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.
(a) Nott and Glidden.
(b) Agassiz and Glidden.
(c) Nott and James.
(d) Nott and Agassiz.

4. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.
(a) William James.
(b) Henry James Sr.
(c) Samuel George Morton.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

5. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.
(a) Transcendent Unity.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Liberal Individualism.
(d) Conservative Individualism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1900, James was scheduled to lecture at the ____________ but became ill and wasn't able to do it until 1902.

3. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.

4. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.

5. In 1903, James published a book entitled _________.

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