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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 term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Logic.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Theory.

2. The second lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Lies.

3. Royce says that limits for which group are a result of only a piece of absolute will?
(a) Humans.
(b) Pragmatists.
(c) Animals.
(d) Theists.

4. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Hinduism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

2. What is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?

3. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?

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

5. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?

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