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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James says that other theorists originate from what type of experience?
(a) Personal experience.
(b) Intelligent experience.
(c) Limited experience.
(d) Broad experience.

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

3. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Monism.

4. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Need.
(b) Desire.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Logic.

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

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

7. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Disharmony.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Harmony.

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

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

10. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Religion.
(d) Health.

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

12. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Logic.
(d) Instinct.

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

14. James claims that religion is in line with which of the following?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Individual simplicity.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Moral simplicity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. James holds that activity is evidenced by which of the following?

3. What does James believe to be the prevalence of one set of ideas?

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

5. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?

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