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

2. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?
(a) Permanent.
(b) Temporary.
(c) True.
(d) False.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does James describe as being both sublime and trivial?

3. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?

4. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

5. James identifies a substance through which of the following?

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