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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section I (Lectures I-IV).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does James state lacks intimacy?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Monotheism.

2. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?
(a) Cycle of life.
(b) Thinking pattern.
(c) Stage of development.
(d) Symptom of aging.

3. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Health.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Religion.

4. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?
(a) Depressing.
(b) Happy.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Divine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

2. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?

3. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.

4. How does James describe ineffability?

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

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