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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Varieties of Religious Experience Section 2 (Lectures XI-Postcript).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.
(a) Frugally.
(b) Negatively.
(c) Simply.
(d) Positively.

2. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Unreality.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

3. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Logic.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Need.
(d) Desire.

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) Moral vs. immoral.
(c) Virtue vs. vices.
(d) Being vs. doing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?

2. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.

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

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

5. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?

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