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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.
(a) Inconsistency.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Purity.
(d) Ascetism.

5. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Experience.
(c) Religion.
(d) Common sense.

6. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?
(a) Unintelligence.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Attention.
(d) Ignorance.

7. What is the second concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?
(a) Comparison.
(b) Difference.
(c) Theism.
(d) Personalism.

8. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Divine.
(d) Love.

9. James says that the second way of looking at "To You" is in which position?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Pluralist.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Logic.

10. What term does James define as an idea's argument with reality?
(a) Logic.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reason.
(d) Religion.

11. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?
(a) Truth.
(b) Religion.
(c) Reason.
(d) Logic.

12. James says that the field of consciousness is a center fringed by which of the following?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Attention.
(d) Awareness.

13. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Charity.
(b) Strength.
(c) Religion.
(d) Virtue.

14. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Deductive.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Inductive.
(d) Dialectic.

15. What does James identify as the "fruits" of religion?
(a) Charity for those in need.
(b) Cultural benefits of saintliness.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.

2. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?

3. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?

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

5. What position does James describe as being based on principles of intellectualism and idealism?

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