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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pragmatism Section I (Lectures I-IV).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?
(a) Generic.
(b) Casual.
(c) Monist.
(d) Plural.

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

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) Being vs. doing.
(c) Having vs. seeing.
(d) Virtue vs. vices.

4. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Confession.
(d) Intelligence.

5. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.
(a) Unreality.
(b) Religion.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

4. What does James identify as the "fruits" of religion?

5. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?

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