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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section II (Lectures V-Appendix C).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) A religious obligation.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) Gullibility.
(d) A vice.

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

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

4. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?
(a) Dualistic theism.
(b) Monistic theism.
(c) Inductive theism.
(d) Polytheism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stance does James attribute to being the way out of monism?

2. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?

3. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?

4. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.

5. What does James say allows Fechner to posit Earth systems based on human systems?

(see the answer key)

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