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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 kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Rational.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Individual.

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

3. According to James, 'each' and 'whole' are levels of what?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Attention.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Witness.

4. What does James attribute to using wholes to explain parts?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Logic.
(d) Rationalism.

5. In "Humanism and Truth Once More," what does James suggest others say pragmatism and humanism deny?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Reality.
(c) Monism.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?

2. What does James describe as the second virtue of pluralism?

3. What is PhD Octopus about?

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

5. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?

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