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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Varieties of Religious Experience Section 2 (Lectures XI-Postcript).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?
(a) Those who are thankful.
(b) Those who are happy.
(c) Those who are depressed.
(d) Those who have nothing.

2. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Charity.
(b) Strength of the soul.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Purity.

3. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Ascetism.

4. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Desire.
(b) Logic.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Need.

5. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Depression.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?

2. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?

3. James says that for a man to experience the divine, what must he let go?

4. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?

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

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