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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays Section II (Essays 11-20).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. James claims that the belief in absolute negates the need for which of the following?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Experience.
(c) Faith.
(d) Action.

3. According to James, what is the nature of Dewey's school?
(a) Empiricist.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.

4. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?
(a) Beings.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Casual.
(d) Empirical.

5. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Attention.
(c) Unintelligence.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?

2. "Answers to a Questionnaire" responds to which person?

3. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?

4. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which concept?

5. How does James describe noetic quality?

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