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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 6 | Part 5, Chapter 13 Pragmatisms, Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Raleigh.

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

3. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.
(a) Pullman.
(b) Pushman.
(c) Morris.
(d) Dewey.

4. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Lovejoy.
(b) James.
(c) Holmes Sr.
(d) Phillips.

5. In 1897 _________ made a speech during a monument dedication to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
(a) Louis Agassiz.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) William James.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jane Addams wrote an article comparing the opposing sides in the Pullman strike to __________.

2. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.

3. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.

4. William James was an extreme ________ like his father, but disagreed with many of his father's ideals.

5. Louis Agassiz gained fame because of his discovery of _________.

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