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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter IX focus on?
(a) The concept of intelligence.
(b) The concept of free will.
(c) The concept of happiness.
(d) The concept of novelty.

2. What is the name of the theory James describes as believing that time is always coming in small drops?
(a) Continuous Theory.
(b) Awareness Theory.
(c) Discretion Theory.
(d) Discontinuity Theory.

3. In the meaning of truth lectures, what does Lecture III cover?
(a) The relationship between truth and happiness.
(b) The relationship between truth and humanism.
(c) The relationship between truth and lies.
(d) The relationship between excitement and truth.

4. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture VIII critique?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Optiism.
(d) Rationalism.

5. What topic, in addition to monism, does James discuss in Chapter VII?
(a) Percepts.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Metaphysics.

6. "Answers to a Questionnaire" responds to which person?
(a) Kant.
(b) Bergson.
(c) Pratt.
(d) Kim.

7. According to James, what can be an object for several minds?
(a) Action.
(b) Motion.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Experience.

8. What does James describe as being a sudden and great extension of the field of consciousness?
(a) Mystical states.
(b) Biological states.
(c) Psychological states.
(d) Enahnces states.

9. Lecture XI discusses which concept?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Logic.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Rationalism.

10. According to James, what is the nature of Dewey's school?
(a) Monist.
(b) Empiricist.
(c) Rationalist.
(d) Pluralist.

11. What concept does the story about the Philippine address discuss?
(a) English Philosophy.
(b) German Expressionism.
(c) French Imperialism.
(d) American Expansionism.

12. Lecture XII is a response to which of the following?
(a) Shakespeare's work.
(b) Connotation and denotation.
(c) Assertions of faith.
(d) Herbert's criticism.

13. What does James describe as the third virtue of pluralism?
(a) it is pragmatic.
(b) It is scientific.
(c) It is pluralistic.
(d) It is theistic.

14. James gave an address to the alumni of ______________.
(a) Long Beach.
(b) Radcliffe.
(c) Yale.
(d) Brown.

15. What does James say about motion, change, and activity?
(a) They often stop moving forward.
(b) They are all the same.
(c) They are always growing.
(d) They are unique to one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does James respond to in "Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic"?

2. Who does James use in Lecture X to illustrate his point clearly?

3. According to James, what is Emerson's good quality?

4. What does James describe as the second virtue of pluralism?

5. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture I relate to?

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