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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Meaning of Truth Section II (Lectures VIII -XV).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does James say that feelings are important?
(a) They are signs of consciousness.
(b) They are direct percepts of the world.
(c) They are signs of intelligence.
(d) They are responses to action.

2. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?
(a) Optimize it.
(b) Neglect it.
(c) Conserve it.
(d) Spend it.

3. What is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Ascetism.
(c) Pessimism.
(d) Meliorism.

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

5. What word does James associate with prayer?
(a) Transaction.
(b) Rational.
(c) Morals.
(d) Virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?

2. What does James attribute to determining response actions?

3. Who believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

4. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?

5. James holds that activity is evidenced by which of the following?

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