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

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

3. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) A religious obligation.
(b) Gullibility.
(c) A vice.
(d) A moral obligation.

4. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Unreality.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Anger.

5. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Monism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?

2. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?

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

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

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

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