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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Meaning of Truth Section I (Lectures I-VII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James describe as being both sublime and trivial?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Science.

2. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are accepting of new information.
(b) They are angry at new information.
(c) They are wary of new information.
(d) They are comforted by new information.

3. James relates that the truth has ____________ consequences.
(a) Painless.
(b) Simple.
(c) Practical.
(d) Immediate.

4. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Having vs. seeing.
(b) Being vs. doing.
(c) Moral vs. immoral.
(d) Virtue vs. vices.

5. The lecture about Royce adds to lectures on which topic?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Bergson.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?

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

3. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?

4. What does James say life consists of?

5. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?

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