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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 stance does James attribute to being the way out of monism?
(a) Determinist stance.
(b) Intelligence stance.
(c) Pragmatist stance.
(d) Witness stance.

2. Where did James experience an earthquake?
(a) Nevada.
(b) California.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Arizona.

3. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?
(a) Ascetism.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Meliorism.
(d) Pessimism.

4. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) A vice.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) A religious obligation.
(d) Gullibility.

5. What does James identify as a "sick soul"?
(a) One who has made a difficult decision.
(b) One who has reached a state of psychological rock-bottom.
(c) One who has committed a crime.
(d) One who is psychologicall and emotionally empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?

2. The challenges of what kind of problems does James present in Chapter II?

3. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?

4. What does James say about his philosophy compared to the philosophy of the subject in "A Pluralistic Mystic"?

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

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