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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some Problems of Philosophy Section II (Chapters VIII-Appendix).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Homer.
(d) Faulkner.

2. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?
(a) Inattention.
(b) Affection.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Common sense.

3. Who says that concepts freeze movement?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Bergson.
(c) Royce.
(d) James.

4. Who does James use in Lecture X to illustrate his point clearly?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Homer.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which stance?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Positivism.
(c) Theism.
(d) Rationalism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

3. The first lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

4. Chapter 1 discuss the importance of which field?

5. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?

(see the answer key)

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