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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 Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Health.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Happiness.

2. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Pluralist.
(b) Monist.
(c) Rationalist.
(d) Empiricist.

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

4. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?
(a) Aspects of charity.
(b) Aspects of ascetism.
(c) Aspects of fanaticism.
(d) Aspects of mystical experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James believes that which viewpoint fills the needs of both religion and fact?

2. Fechner believed that consciousness is based on which of the following?

3. According to James, noetic pluralism indicates which of the following?

4. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?

5. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?

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