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Chapter 20: Intellectual and Cultural Trends

Multiple Choice Quiz #2

Multiple Choice Quiz #2
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 9 questions.

	What American university first specialized in graduate studies?   Harvard Oberlin Johns Hopkins University of Chicago University of Michigan

	Who introduced the elective system to higher education in the United States?   Edward Bok Herbert B. Adams Thomas Eakins Charles Eliot Daniel Coit Gilman

	According to Woodrow Wilson, which of these was the most influential in American government?   political parties the media interest groups congressional committees the president

	Who was the late nineteenth century American artist associated with French impressionism?   Mary Cassatt Winslow Homer Albert P. Ryder James Whistler Thomas Eakins

	Literary realism was characterized by   fictionalized descriptions of middle-class life superficial characterization attention to social problems and social classes avoidance of American themes morose sentimentality

	The Morrill Act provided funds for   the arts companies conduction agricultural research scientific research social science research higher education

	"Dynamic Sociology" was   an attack on the teachings of Herbert Spencer justification for Social Darwinism published in Popular Science Monthly by William James an account of how environment contributes to individual behavior

	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stressed which of these concepts of law?   that changing times require adjustments in the law the static logic of law strict interpretation of the Constitution written statute reliance on precedent

	Which one of the following opposed government regulation?   institutionalist economists Spencerian sociology Richard T. Ely Lester Frank Ward

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