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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Empiricist.
(b) Monist.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Rationalist.

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

3. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?
(a) Moral simplicity.
(b) Individual simplicity.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Instinct.

4. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?
(a) Monist.
(b) Religious.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Intellectual.

5. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?
(a) Love.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Divine.

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

7. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Disharmony.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Sadness.

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

9. Royce says that limits for which group are a result of only a piece of absolute will?
(a) Theists.
(b) Pragmatists.
(c) Humans.
(d) Animals.

10. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?
(a) Logical operation.
(b) Immanent operation.
(c) Singular operation.
(d) Inductive reasoning.

11. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?
(a) Stage of development.
(b) Thinking pattern.
(c) Cycle of life.
(d) Symptom of aging.

12. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Depression.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Authority.
(d) Morality.

13. How does James describe noetic quality?
(a) New happiness.
(b) New knowledge.
(c) New morals.
(d) New virtues.

14. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?
(a) Jewish temple.
(b) Christian church.
(c) Crucifix.
(d) Eucharist.

15. Which statement is true about James' thoughts on experiences?
(a) They all revolve around theism.
(b) They are all related to each other.
(c) They are all related to empiricism.
(d) They are all related to determinism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James states that which viewpoint is the process for determining truth?

2. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?

3. According to James, 'each' and 'whole' are levels of what?

4. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?

5. What kind of god does James find in the all-form?

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