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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 is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Meliorism.

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

3. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Strength.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Religion.
(d) Charity.

4. What word does James associate with prayer?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Morals.
(c) Transaction.
(d) Rational.

5. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?
(a) Logic.
(b) Reason.
(c) Truth.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

2. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?

3. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?

4. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?

5. Lecture VII relates which of the following to pragmatism?

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