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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 7 The Pierces, Section 5 | Part 3, Chapter 8 The Law of Errors, Section 1 | Part 3, Chapter 8 The Law of Errors, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The dominant political party during the time of the Civil War was ________.
(a) Independent Party
(b) Whig Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Democratic Party.

3. Henry James Sr. preached _________ and stated that there was no room for morality.
(a) Slavery as a virtue.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Free love.

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

5. What planet's discovery did Benjamin Pierce call 'a happy accident'
(a) Saturn.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Neptune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Benjamin and Charles caused fear in the United States because of their use of ___________ in the trial.

2. Many Southerners and Northerners found a problem with _________ because it seemed to contradict Genesis.

3. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.

4. Due to the ___________ whims of Henry Jr. and William led the family to move several times to various places in the world.

5. The Civil War caused the beliefs of previous times to be __________.

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