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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 attribute to using wholes to explain parts?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Logic.

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

3. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Intellectualism.
(d) Monism.

4. The first lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Logic.
(b) Reason.
(c) Pessimism.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "To You"?

2. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?

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

4. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?

5. Fechner is the founder of ______________.

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