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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. Dartmouth University started as an attempt to build a school for ____________.
(a) Mexican Americans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Irish Americans.
(d) Black Americans.

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

3. A land grant was received for the school that stipulated that it be run by __________.
(a) A board of trustees.
(b) Eleazer Wheelock.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) White males.

4. _________ founded the Metaphysical Club in 1872 in Cambridge.
(a) William James.
(b) Charles Pierce.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. The organizer of the American Railroad Union was arrested ________.
(a) One time.
(b) Two times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Four times.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ lobbied Congress to help create a National Academy of Science.

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

3. _________ was Vermont Transcendentalism, a conservative transcendentalism that focuses on preserving institutions and systems.

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

5. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.

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