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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 is neither impossible nor inevitable?
(a) Meliorism.
(b) Ascetism.
(c) Pessimism.
(d) Optimism.

2. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Permanent.
(d) False.

3. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?
(a) Montheism.
(b) Monistic pantheism.
(c) Pluralist Atheism.
(d) Polytheism.

4. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Casual.
(c) Generic.
(d) Plural.

5. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?
(a) Logic.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Theory.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. In excess, what does James believe devoutness becomes?

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

3. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?

4. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?

5. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?

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