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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.
(a) Henry James.
(b) William James.
(c) Charles Lowell.
(d) Henry Abbott.

2. Benjamin and Charles caused fear in the United States because of their use of ___________ in the trial.
(a) Statistics.
(b) Witnesses.
(c) Signatures.
(d) Fear tactics.

3. ___________ disliked immigration and created a society of married women who demanded their husbands pay for housecleaning.
(a) Elizabeth Agassiz.
(b) Harriet Melusina Fay.
(c) Sarah Pierce.
(d) Hetty Robinson.

4. __________ is the theory stating that races originate from separate sources.
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Polygenism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Monogenism.

5. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court for _______ years.
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes often preached the __________.

2. _________ graduated from the University of Vermont in 1858 and took the position of head of the philosophy department in 1867.

3. The Civil War saw the end of the __________ industry in New England.

4. In April of 1864, an article was published in the __________ that made him rethink his exhaustion with the war.

5. ________ was an officer in the Union Army and was known to many as Captain for the rest of his life.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with the job that Wright had with the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac?

2. How was is said that Swedenborn created his religion, later becoming a religious leader?

3. Why did William Henry Sr. always feel that he was at a disadvantage in his life?

4. Why did John Dewey eventually become interested in philosophy as the main direction of his work?

5. What did Agassiz want to prove about the fish that James caught while traveling in Brazil?

6. What were the two events in Henry Sr.'s life which seem to have changed him and his actions?

7. What was in the essay that James read by a French philosopher which helped him to gain insight into two things?

8. Why were many of Henry's writings published for the public to see in books and in newspapers?

9. Why was Boston the financial center for all cotton products in the mid 19th century?

10. Why did Charles Pierce decide he wanted to found the Metaphysical Club in 1872?

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