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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.
(a) Virtue.
(b) Subconsciousness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Charity.

6. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?
(a) Reason.
(b) Truth.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

7. James believes that which viewpoint fills the needs of both religion and fact?
(a) Monism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Relgion.

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

9. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Religion.
(c) Strength.
(d) Charity.

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

11. In determinist stance, James describes superhuman as which of the following?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Finite.
(d) Unintelligence.

12. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?
(a) Those who are happy.
(b) Those who are depressed.
(c) Those who are thankful.
(d) Those who have nothing.

13. What is the second concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?
(a) Comparison.
(b) Personalism.
(c) Theism.
(d) Difference.

14. What position does James describe as being based on principles of intellectualism and idealism?
(a) Pluralist.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Empiricist.

15. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Dialectic.
(b) Deductive.
(c) Rationalist.
(d) Inductive.

Short Answer Questions

1. James describes the parts of the universe as being which of the following?

2. The first lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

3. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?

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

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

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