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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 does James say life consists of?
(a) Constant ignorance.
(b) Infrequent re-ordering process.
(c) Constant re-ordering process.
(d) Inconsistent ignorance.

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

3. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Pluralism.

4. James identifies a substance through which of the following?
(a) Intellectual reasoning.
(b) Attributes.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Senses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stance does the Philippine address defend?

2. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

3. Fechner believed that consciousness is based on which of the following?

4. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture VIII critique?

5. What adjective does James use to describe concepts?

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