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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. _________ lowered employee wages but refused to help them in any way including lowering rent in the buildings he owned.
(a) Dewey.
(b) Pullman.
(c) Pushman.
(d) Morris.

2. _________ was a good friend of John Dewey and helped him to see her perspective of people through her experience at the house.
(a) Florence Kelley.
(b) Ellen Gates Starr.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) George Herbert Mead.

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

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

5. ________ was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his personal problems from the past.
(a) Charles Pierce.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) George Morris.
(d) Francis Parker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pragmatism states "people are the agents of their own destinies" and was not used by _________.

2. _________ took classes from Hall because he like the way Hall used physiological psychology with physics and metaphysics.

3. Modern societies are led by ________ and the procedures and theories that led to modernity.

4. In 1908 'The Process of Government' was published by __________.

5. Targets of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of World War I included all of the following except __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How were students taught at the laboratory school in Chicago by Dewey and the staff?

2. What was the new requirement of all students who enrolled in Harvard Professional Schools?

3. What was the theory put forth by Holmes' lecture series, "The Common Law?"

4. Why did Kallen give up his religion at first, though he ended up returning later on?

5. Who are the two authors who both worked on a theory of pragmatism, though they were vastly different?

6. What did Dewey believe about mind and reality in his time after leaving Chicago?

7. What are modern societies led by, according to the studies of Holmes?

8. Who created the University of Chicago though he stayed out of all areas except the financial area?

9. Why was Cattell fired from Columbia University with the start of WWI?

10. What did Pierce have to do because of the cancer that ravaged his body in his later years?

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