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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 kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Individual.
(d) Rational.

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

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

4. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?
(a) The significance of a person.
(b) The meaning or importance of a thing.
(c) The decision one makes to become happy.
(d) The motivation one person has to change.

5. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?
(a) The ability to continue loving somebody even when one is depressed.
(b) The decision to become happy when depressed.
(c) The longing to see others become happy.
(d) A deliberate attempt to see the goodness in the world and in one's personal life.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?

2. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.

3. How does James describe noetic quality?

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

5. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?

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