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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does James believe to be the prevalence of one set of ideas?
(a) Convention.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Action.
(d) Experience.

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

6. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Purity.
(b) Charity.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Strength of the soul.

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

8. What stance does James attribute to being the way out of monism?
(a) Witness stance.
(b) Pragmatist stance.
(c) Intelligence stance.
(d) Determinist stance.

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

10. What term does James define as an idea's argument with reality?
(a) Truth.
(b) Religion.
(c) Logic.
(d) Reason.

11. James describes the parts of the universe as being which of the following?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Discontinuous.
(c) Happy.
(d) Individualized.

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

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

14. The second lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Lies.

15. Fechner believed that consciousness is based on which of the following?
(a) Organization and needs.
(b) Logic and instinct.
(c) Deductiveness and inductiveness.
(d) Intelligence and reasoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James describe as occurring when the whole changes all things contained within it must also change as a singular act?

2. In determinist stance, James describes superhuman as which of the following?

3. What kind of unity does James describe as being things that are like each other?

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

5. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?

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