View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 3 | Part 2, Chapter 6 Brazil, Section 4 | Part 3, Chapter 7 The Pierces, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Boston Gazette.
(b) New Yorker.
(c) Atlantic Monthly.
(d) Harvard Magazine.

2. Even though he had no formal education in either, ___________ taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard.
(a) Henry James Sr.
(b) Bob James.
(c) William James
(d) Henry James Jr.

3. When the expedition to Brazil returned, _________ gave lectures about evidence of the Ice Age in Brazil.
(a) William James.
(b) Louis Agassiz.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Elisabeth Agassiz.

4. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Lowell.
(c) Henry Abbott.
(d) Henry James.

5. William James spent a great deal of time and energy on being indecisive, but he was able to use it to create the idea of _________.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Abolitionism.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Antagonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.

2. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.

3. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

4. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.

5. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought by generals Lee and ________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 250 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample