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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. In excess, what does James believe devoutness becomes?
(a) Ascetism.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Fanaticism.
(d) Religion.

2. Who wrote the poem "To You"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) Henry James.

3. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Unreality.
(c) Religion.
(d) Rationalism.

4. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Subconsciousness.
(d) Charity.

5. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express virtue.
(b) The inability to express charity.
(c) The inability to express experience.
(d) The inability to express ascetism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?

2. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?

3. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?

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

5. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.

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