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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. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Faithfulness and unfaithfulness.
(c) Happiness and unhappiness.
(d) Unity and disunity.

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

3. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?
(a) Casual.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Generic.
(d) Plural.

4. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Homer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James describes the parts of the universe as being which of the following?

2. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?

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

4. James believes that which viewpoint fills the needs of both religion and fact?

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

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