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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. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Health.
(d) Religion.

2. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Pluralist.
(b) Empiricist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Rationalist.

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

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

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. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?

2. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?

3. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?

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

5. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?

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