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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) Immigrants.
(d) Emigrants.

2. ___________ did not believe he was a pragmatist, even though he held many of the same beliefs.
(a) W.E.B. Dubois.
(b) Oliver Holmes.
(c) John Dewey.
(d) Benjamin Pierce.

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

4. James asked his brother to stay with him after death to see if they could still ___________ after he was dead.
(a) Laugh.
(b) Grow.
(c) Communicate.
(d) Learn.

5. President Gillman later fired all ________ faculty from the school effectively removing anyone teaching philosophy.
(a) Full-Time.
(b) Metaphysical Club.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Part-Time.

6. Pierce also believed that humans get their ideas of right and wrong from __________.
(a) Internal sources.
(b) God.
(c) Laws.
(d) Other humans.

7. Pierce believed that the universe was constantly evolving and trying to reach ___________.
(a) Chaos.
(b) Relatvie truth.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) Absolute truth.

8. _________ sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932.
(a) William James.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Benjamin Pierce.
(d) Oliver Holmes.

9. During Holmes' first semester teaching at Harvard Law School he was offered a seat on__________.
(a) The local school board.
(b) The Faculty Chair.
(c) The Massachusetts Supreme Court.
(d) The Board of Administrators.

10. Modern societies are led by ________ and the procedures and theories that led to modernity.
(a) Heredity.
(b) Nature.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Chance.

11. Eventually G. Stanley Hall was able to talk his employer into sending him to _______ to study more.
(a) England.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

12. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.
(a) Francis Parker.
(b) William James.
(c) George Morris.
(d) John Dewey.

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

14. Targets of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of World War I included all of the following except __________.
(a) Blacks.
(b) American born Protestant white men.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Jews.

15. Despite his extensive training both at home and abroad Morris was unable to attain a professorship until offered one at __________.
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Indiana.
(c) Union Theological College.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pierce used __________ daily because of the pain caused by cancer that ravaged his body.

2. Holmes and James ________ after their marriages.

3. Which amendment was created to give black people more rights and to protect them after the Civil War?

4. James believed that reality operated in the following ways except _________.

5. In many societies in the early 20th Century the concept of ________ began to appear.

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