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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pragmatism Section II (Lectures V-VIII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Unreality.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Gratitude.

2. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Buddhism.

3. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?
(a) The longing to see others become happy.
(b) The decision to become happy when depressed.
(c) The ability to continue loving somebody even when one is depressed.
(d) A deliberate attempt to see the goodness in the world and in one's personal life.

4. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?
(a) Meliorism.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Optimism.

5. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?
(a) Infinitely many.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

2. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?

3. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?

4. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

5. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?

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