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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section I (Lectures I-IV).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James identify as a "sick soul"?
(a) One who has reached a state of psychological rock-bottom.
(b) One who has committed a crime.
(c) One who is psychologicall and emotionally empty.
(d) One who has made a difficult decision.

2. What is the first concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Logic.

3. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Morality.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Depression.
(d) Authority.

4. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?
(a) Immanent operation.
(b) Inductive reasoning.
(c) Singular operation.
(d) Logical operation.

5. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Intellectualists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does James define as an idea's argument with reality?

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

3. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?

4. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?

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

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