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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does James attribute to using parts to explain wholes?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Monism.

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

4. What position does James say is the 'all-form'?
(a) Rationalist.
(b) Logic.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Monist.

5. What does James attribute to using wholes to explain parts?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Logic.

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

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

8. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?
(a) Happiness and unhappiness.
(b) Faithfulness and unfaithfulness.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Unity and disunity.

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

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

11. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express virtue.
(b) The inability to express ascetism.
(c) The inability to express charity.
(d) The inability to express experience.

12. How does James describe Josiah Royce's approach?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Empirical.
(c) Instinctual.
(d) Deductive.

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

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

15. Who says that concepts freeze movement?
(a) James.
(b) Royce.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Bergson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

2. James says that the second way of looking at "To You" is in which position?

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

4. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

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

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