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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. _________ believed there could be no individual without society.
(a) John Locke.
(b) William James.
(c) James Marsh.
(d) John Wheelock.

2. _________ was able to integrate polygenism into the South by linking it to Christianity.
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) Samuel Cartwright.
(c) Louis Agassiz.
(d) George Glidden.

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

4. 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) University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

5. __________ is the theory stating that races originate from separate sources.
(a) Polygenism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Monotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

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

3. __________consisted mainly of abolitionists which was shown when it enrolled 34,000 out of 37,000 available men for the war.

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

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

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