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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. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.
(a) 20 days.
(b) 40 days.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 60 days.

2. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.
(a) Scottish Baptist.
(b) Swedenborgian.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Presbyterian.

3. Agassiz wrote a letter to ________ stating that he had not found any real evidence of the Ice Age in South America.
(a) Alonzo Potter.
(b) William James.
(c) Benjamin Pierce.
(d) Charles Darwin.

4. While in Brazil, ________ found the people there to be 'refined and gentlemanly' and had to reconsider previous beliefs.
(a) George Glidden.
(b) William James.
(c) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

5. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.
(a) Great Second Awakening.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Civil War.
(d) Transcendentalist Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 _________.

2. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.

3. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.

4. William James believed that there were always more solutions to a project than a single person could create, which led to the idea of ___________.

5. Even though he had no formal education in either, ___________ taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard.

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