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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. How does James describe noetic quality?
(a) New morals.
(b) New happiness.
(c) New knowledge.
(d) New virtues.

2. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Health.
(c) Religion.
(d) Happiness.

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

4. James asserts that inquiry is first designed to evaluate which of the following?
(a) The essential nature of a thing.
(b) The darkness of deep depression.
(c) The absence of something.
(d) The lack of happiness in a person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?

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

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

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

5. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?

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