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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 2 | Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 3 | Part 3, Chapter 9 The Metaphysical Club, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In September of 1876 __________ died of an overdose at the age of 46.
(a) Nicholas St. John Green.
(b) Charles Eliot.
(c) Chauncy Wright.
(d) William James.

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

4. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. __________ talked the Belgian government into building an observatory and sending him to Paris to get training.

3. Whaling expeditions were often underwritten by agencies which were run by __________.

4. Charles Pierce had an addiction to ______ that started due to a childhood prescription for facial neuralgia.

5. William James concluded from his trip to Brazil that the effects of race and circumstances depend on a person's __________.

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