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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. 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) Freedom.
(b) Jobbism.
(c) Occupationism.
(d) Separatism.

2. Which person was not a member of the 'Septum'?
(a) Chauncy Wright.
(b) Henry Buckle.
(c) Charles Eliot.
(d) Ephraim Gurney.

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

4. ___________was a protege of George Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt.
(a) Henry James Jr.
(b) Louis Agassiz.
(c) Samuel George Morton.
(d) William James.

5. _________ was a Vermont Transcendentalist born in 1859 and was close to being socialist in viewpoint.
(a) Lucina Dewey.
(b) Frederick Dewey.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) Archibald Dewey.

Short Answer Questions

1. William James believed that people have beliefs because the object of belief has been shown to have _________.

2. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Staff created _______ in the poorest section of Chicago.

3. Henry Dana, Charles Sumner and Charles Adams wanted to use the governmental system to stop the spread of slavery. They were _________.

4. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.

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

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