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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Meaning of Truth Section I (Lectures I-VII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Virtue vs. vices.
(b) Being vs. doing.
(c) Having vs. seeing.
(d) Moral vs. immoral.

2. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?
(a) Optimize it.
(b) Conserve it.
(c) Spend it.
(d) Neglect it.

3. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?
(a) Beings.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Casual.
(d) Empirical.

4. What does James call the immediate way of knowing something?
(a) Intuitive.
(b) Reasonable.
(c) Perceptional.
(d) Representational.

5. The second lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Lies.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Pluralism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In determinist stance, James describes superhuman as which of the following?

2. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?

3. What word does James associate with prayer?

4. How does James describe ineffability?

5. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?

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