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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Individual.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Rational.

2. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?
(a) Happy.
(b) Divine.
(c) Depressing.
(d) Solitude.

3. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Homer.
(d) Faulkner.

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

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

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

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

8. What does James say allows Fechner to posit Earth systems based on human systems?
(a) Theism.
(b) Difference.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Analogy.

9. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?
(a) Affection.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Inattention.

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

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

12. James says that the field of consciousness is a center fringed by which of the following?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Attention.
(d) Awareness.

13. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Unreality.
(d) Religion.

14. James holds that activity is evidenced by which of the following?
(a) Change.
(b) History.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Time.

15. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Depression.
(b) Authority.
(c) Morality.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.

2. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?

3. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?

4. James identifies a substance through which of the following?

5. What stance does James attribute to being the way out of monism?

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