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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 happiness.
(b) New knowledge.
(c) New virtues.
(d) New morals.

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

3. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.
(a) Subconsciousness.
(b) Charity.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Virtue.

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

5. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?
(a) Immoral thought.
(b) Moral thought.
(c) Irrational thought.
(d) Rational thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.

2. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?

3. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?

4. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?

5. How does James describe ineffability?

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