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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.
(a) Textile.
(b) Whaling.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Cotton.

2. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought by generals Lee and ________.
(a) Grant.
(b) Wright.
(c) 'Stonewall Jackson.'
(d) McClellan.

3. __________ believed that results not logic created beliefs.
(a) William James.
(b) Chauncy Wright.
(c) Henry Buckle.
(d) Charles Eliot.

4. Wright believed that ___________ is the difference between facts and values.
(a) Constructivism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Negativism.
(d) Positivism.

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

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

7. Holmes' experiences during the war led him to believe that imposing one's beliefs would always lead to __________.
(a) Change.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Violence.
(d) Peace.

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

9. Henry James Sr. rebelled against his father and took up religion in the form of ___________.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Swedenborgian.
(c) Scottish Baptist.
(d) Presbyterian.

10. __________ talked the Belgian government into building an observatory and sending him to Paris to get training.
(a) Joseph Fourier.
(b) Adolph Quetlet.
(c) Henry Thomas Buckle.
(d) Charles Pierce.

11. Charles Pierce wrote about the Metaphysical Club _______ years after it took place.
(a) 25.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 35.

12. __________ states that since there is no unknown variable, the measurement is likely to be between the two extremes.
(a) The Law of Statistics.
(b) The Bell Curve Law.
(c) The Law of Probability.
(d) The Law of Errors.

13. ___________ published many newspaper columns and books through donations or self-publication.
(a) Henry James Sr.
(b) William James.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) Charles Lowell.

14. _______ used his studies of Black Egyptian skulls to conclude that black people had always been slaves.
(a) Samuel George Morton.
(b) William James.
(c) Henry James Sr.
(d) Louis Agassiz.

15. __________ created the method of least squares in order to find the true location of the object.
(a) Carl Gauss.
(b) Benjamin Pierce.
(c) Pierre Laplace.
(d) Adrien Legendre.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Dewey attended the University of Vermont and was a supporter of __________.

3. Due to Henry James Sr.'s religious beliefs, his wife Mary Walsh had to resign her membership at the _________ church before their marriage.

4. William James and Charles Pierce became friends while they were both attending ___________.

5. Unlike Darwin, Charles Pierce did not believe that randomness __________.

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