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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 believes that people will first act out of _____________.
(a) Logic.
(b) Desire.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Need.

2. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?
(a) Lies.
(b) Depression.
(c) Truth.
(d) Happiness.

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

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

5. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Ascetism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.

2. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?

3. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

4. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?

5. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.

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