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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?
(a) Inattention.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Affection.
(d) Intelligence.

2. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Religion.
(d) Health.

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

4. James asserts that inquiry is first designed to evaluate which of the following?
(a) The absence of something.
(b) The essential nature of a thing.
(c) The darkness of deep depression.
(d) The lack of happiness in a person.

5. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Purity.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Charity.
(d) Strength of the soul.

6. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Spiritualism.
(d) Christianity.

7. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Logic.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Instinct.

8. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?
(a) Casual.
(b) Monist.
(c) Plural.
(d) Generic.

9. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are wary of new information.
(b) They are comforted by new information.
(c) They are accepting of new information.
(d) They are angry at new information.

10. In excess, what does James believe devoutness becomes?
(a) Religion.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Fanaticism.

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

12. James says that the first way of looking at "To You" is in which position?
(a) Empiricist.
(b) Monist.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Rationalist.

13. James says that the field of consciousness is a center fringed by which of the following?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Attention.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ignorance.

14. What does James describe as being both sublime and trivial?
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Psychology.

15. According to James, noetic pluralism indicates which of the following?
(a) A god might not exist.
(b) A god might have once existed.
(c) A god could never have existed.
(d) A god might not be all-knowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The lecture about Royce adds to lectures on which topic?

2. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?

3. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?

4. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?

5. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?

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