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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. James identifies a substance through which of the following?
(a) Attributes.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Intellectual reasoning.
(d) Senses.

2. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?
(a) Those who have nothing.
(b) Those who are thankful.
(c) Those who are happy.
(d) Those who are depressed.

3. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?
(a) Religious.
(b) Pantheistic.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pragmatic.

4. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.
(a) Inconsistency.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Purity.
(d) Ascetism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?

2. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?

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

4. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?

5. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?

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