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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to James, what is within the realm of sensory experience prior to cognition?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Empiricism.

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

3. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.
(a) Inconsistency.
(b) Ascetism.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Purity.

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

5. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Lies.
(d) Depression.

6. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) A moral obligation.
(b) A religious obligation.
(c) Gullibility.
(d) A vice.

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

8. What does James identify as the "fruits" of religion?
(a) Cultural benefits of saintliness.
(b) Charity for those in need.
(c) Morality.
(d) Ascetism.

9. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Moral vs. immoral.
(b) Virtue vs. vices.
(c) Having vs. seeing.
(d) Being vs. doing.

10. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Dualistic theism.
(c) Inductive theism.
(d) Monistic theism.

11. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Love.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Divine.

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

13. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Unreality.
(d) Anger.

14. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?
(a) Crucifix.
(b) Eucharist.
(c) Jewish temple.
(d) Christian church.

15. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Spiritualism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?

2. What does James say life consists of?

3. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?

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

5. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?

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