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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Unreality.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

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

3. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Intellectualism.
(c) Monism.
(d) Pragmatism.

4. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?
(a) The ability to continue loving somebody even when one is depressed.
(b) The decision to become happy when depressed.
(c) A deliberate attempt to see the goodness in the world and in one's personal life.
(d) The longing to see others become happy.

5. James states that which viewpoint is the process for determining truth?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Monism.

6. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?
(a) Intellectualists.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Religious people.
(d) Psychologists.

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

8. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?
(a) Unintelligence.
(b) Attention.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Common sense.

9. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?
(a) Immoral thought.
(b) Moral thought.
(c) Rational thought.
(d) Irrational thought.

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

11. What does James say allows Fechner to posit Earth systems based on human systems?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Difference.
(d) Analogy.

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

13. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?
(a) Theory.
(b) Logic.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Rationalism.

14. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?
(a) Monist.
(b) Religious.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Pantheistic.

15. Who wrote the poem "To You"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) William Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.

3. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

4. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?

5. Lecture VII relates which of the following to pragmatism?

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