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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 8 | Part 5, Chapter 14 Pluralisms, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.
(a) John Dewey.
(b) Joseph Torrey.
(c) Henry Torrey.
(d) Sarah Paine Torrey.

3. Students in Dewey's classes were taught by _______.
(a) Listening.
(b) Example.
(c) Observation.
(d) Reading.

4. G. Stanley Hall studied New Psychology and received a PhD under _________ at Harvard.
(a) William James.
(b) George Morris.
(c) Francis Parker.
(d) John Dewey.

5. Dewey started the laboratory school because he believed that Chicago public schools had a _________ on children.
(a) Bias.
(b) Positive.
(c) Depressive.
(d) Negative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.

2. James compared Pluralism to forms of government saying that it was more like __________.

3. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.

5. Most of the faculty at the University of Chicago held the firm beliefs of ________ and Dewey did not fit in well.

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