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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?
(a) Pluralist Atheism.
(b) Monistic pantheism.
(c) Montheism.
(d) Polytheism.

2. Fechner's faith saved him from which of the following, according to James?
(a) Death.
(b) Pain.
(c) Fear.
(d) Illness.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Catholicism.

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

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

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

12. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?
(a) Permanent.
(b) False.
(c) True.
(d) Temporary.

13. Who believed that inclusive forms of consciousness are partly generated by less inclusive forms?
(a) James.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Fechner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?

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

3. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?

4. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?

5. Fechner is the founder of ______________.

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