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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. The first president of the University of Chicago was_________.
(a) William James.
(b) William Rainey Harper.
(c) George Herbert Mead.
(d) John Dewey.

2. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.
(a) Primitive Christians.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Scottish Baptists.
(d) Swedenborgism.

3. After several political battles the school was administered by _________.
(a) Eleazer Wheelock.
(b) The original 12 member board of trustees.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) John Wheelock.

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

5. _________ states that the government is created by individuals for the purpose of protecting those individuals.
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Conservative Individualism.
(c) Liberal Individualism.
(d) Transcendent Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chicago at the time was in the middle of the _________ strike.

2. Henry James Sr. was born again during the _________.

3. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.

4. 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 _________.

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

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