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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. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Instinct.
(b) Desire.
(c) Logic.
(d) Need.

2. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Authority.
(c) Morality.
(d) Depression.

3. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Strength of the soul.
(c) Charity.
(d) Purity.

4. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Meliorism.
(d) Ascetism.

5. What does James attribute to using parts to explain wholes?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Empiricism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?

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

3. How does James describe ineffability?

4. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?

5. Lecture VII relates which of the following to pragmatism?

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