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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. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.
(a) Irrational.
(b) Empty.
(c) Instinctive.
(d) Counter-intuitive.

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

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

4. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.
(a) Montpelier philosophy.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Burlington philosophy.
(d) Liberal individualism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James felt that pragmatism was the philosophy of __________.

2. In 1854 __________ published a two-book set entitled Types of Mankind asserting the supremacy of the white race.

3. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.

4. ___________was a physician from Montgomery, Alabama that did not agree with slavery but was afraid of Black people.

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

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