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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 6 | Part 2, Chapter 5 Agassiz, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 5 Agassiz, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The military leaders during the time of the civil war were often chosen due to __________.
(a) Political influence.
(b) Military training.
(c) Demonstrated leadership.
(d) Battle prowess.

2. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) William James.
(d) John Dewey.

3. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.
(a) Wendell Phillips.
(b) Dred Scott.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Lovejoy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry James Sr. rebelled against his father and took up religion in the form of ___________.

2. Holmes was not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg and viewed it as _________.

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

4. Henry James Sr. became involved with all of the following religious groups except _________.

5. The war had been compared to _________ and the Union soldiers rallied themselves around it.

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