The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Test | Final Test - Easy

Louis Menand
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bentley and Dewey published a book called "Knowing the Known" giving American society knowledge about________.
(a) American born women.
(b) American born men.
(c) Emigrants.
(d) Immigrants.

2. The new organization developed by Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell had thirty-one investigations of ____________.
(a) Wrongful termination.
(b) Malpractice.
(c) Sexual harrassment.
(d) Plagiarism.

3. Dewey believed that prejudice was just a phase that a society needed to go through in order to get to the new societal ________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Community.
(c) Peace.
(d) Whole.

4. William James created ___________ and brought it to the public for Charles Pierce.
(a) Pragmatics.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Monogenism.
(d) Pragmaticism.

5. Within his theory of pragmatism, James came to believe that some beliefs were __________.
(a) Counter-intuitive.
(b) Empty.
(c) Instinctive.
(d) Irrational.

6. Cultural ______________ seemed to foster prejudice and discrimination, though Kallen used the phrase in a book in 1924.
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Missteps.
(c) Errors.
(d) Marxism.

7. Hegel espoused a ________ philosophy which was not in accordance with how James viewed the world.
(a) Pluralistic.
(b) Individualistic.
(c) Monistic.
(d) Contemporary.

8. Cattell was fired from his job for _____________ another professor on his own personal time.
(a) Calling.
(b) Making fun of.
(c) Talking to.
(d) Sending a letter.

9. Dewey believed in the integration of race to create unforeseeable ___________ for all races.
(a) Troubles.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Mourning.

10. Randolph Bourne believed his purpose in life was to find the ____________ in other people's theories and philosophies.
(a) Angles.
(b) Documentation.
(c) Benefits.
(d) Problems.

11. What was the organization that Dewey, Lovejoy, and Cattell created in 1915, similar to the AMA or the ABA?
(a) PETA.
(b) UAW.
(c) NAACP.
(d) AAUP.

12. The university presidents still gave __________ and fired faculty for not expressing the views of the college.
(a) Fines.
(b) Warnings.
(c) Corporal punishment.
(d) Detentions.

13. This new organization was sold to ___________ stating that it protected university and college professors from being terminated for differing thoughts.
(a) The public.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) Rockefeller.
(d) The government.

14. In 1908 'The Process of Government' was published by __________.
(a) William James.
(b) Anthony Bentley.
(c) Franz Boas.
(d) John Dewey.

15. Dewey offered to combine the Laboratory school and ________ elementary in order to keep the funding of a wealthy patron.
(a) Washington.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Parker.
(d) Rockefeller.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ used notes to form the Hibbert Lectures which were eventually published in ' A Pluralistic Universe'.

2. Dewey and Holmes focused on the rights of _________ instead of the rights of the individual.

3. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.

4. During one of the club meetings _________ read a paper called Design and Chance.

5. ___________ did not believe he was a pragmatist, even though he held many of the same beliefs.

(see the answer keys)

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