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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 The Wilderness, Section 5 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 12 years out of school, Holmes wrote an article based on ________, the idea that if one does his job correctly and with honor, one should be fulfilled.
(a) Occupationism.
(b) Jobbism.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Separatism.

2. The Civil War caused the beliefs of previous times to be __________.
(a) Promoted.
(b) Discredited.
(c) Respected.
(d) Embraced.

3. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.
(a) New Yorker.
(b) Atlantic Review.
(c) North American Review.
(d) Harvard Magazine.

5. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.
(a) The Trojan War.
(b) The storming of the Bastille.
(c) The Crusades.
(d) The War of Independence.

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. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a(n) _________.

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

4. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.

5. Holmes was eventually released from his commission and returned home. When he did he entered Harvard to study_________.

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