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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. What word does James associate with prayer?
(a) Morals.
(b) Transaction.
(c) Rational.
(d) Virtue.

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

3. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) Gullibility.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) A religious obligation.
(d) A vice.

4. What does James identify as a "sick soul"?
(a) One who has made a difficult decision.
(b) One who has committed a crime.
(c) One who has reached a state of psychological rock-bottom.
(d) One who is psychologicall and emotionally empty.

5. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express ascetism.
(b) The inability to express charity.
(c) The inability to express virtue.
(d) The inability to express experience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In excess, what does James believe devoutness becomes?

3. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.

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

5. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?

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