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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. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Authority.
(c) Depression.
(d) Morality.

2. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.
(a) Logic.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Instinct.

3. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Monist.
(b) Pluralist.
(c) Empiricist.
(d) Rationalist.

4. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Religion.
(c) Experience.
(d) Ability.

5. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?
(a) Theist.
(b) Meliorist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

2. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?

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

4. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.

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

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