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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 say allows Fechner to posit Earth systems based on human systems?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Difference.
(d) Analogy.

2. Fechner's faith saved him from which of the following, according to James?
(a) Fear.
(b) Pain.
(c) Death.
(d) Illness.

3. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?
(a) Monist.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Pantheistic.
(d) Religious.

4. James identifies a substance through which of the following?
(a) Intellectual reasoning.
(b) Attributes.
(c) Senses.
(d) Empathy.

5. According to James, noetic pluralism indicates which of the following?
(a) A god might not exist.
(b) A god might not be all-knowing.
(c) A god could never have existed.
(d) A god might have once existed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James describe noetic quality?

2. The third lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

3. James says that for a man to experience the divine, what must he let go?

4. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?

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

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