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

2. The lecture about Royce adds to lectures on which topic?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Theism.
(d) Bergson.

3. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?
(a) Symptom of aging.
(b) Thinking pattern.
(c) Cycle of life.
(d) Stage of development.

4. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?
(a) Individual simplicity.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Moral simplicity.
(d) Instinct.

5. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?

2. What is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?

3. Who says that concepts freeze movement?

4. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?

5. What does James attribute to using wholes to explain parts?

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