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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. James associates Charles Pierce with what concept?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Ascetism.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Pragmatism.

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

8. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Intellectualists.

9. 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) Lies.
(c) Truth.
(d) Depression.

10. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Strength.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Religion.
(d) Charity.

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

12. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Confession.
(d) Prayer.

13. How does James describe noetic quality?
(a) New happiness.
(b) New knowledge.
(c) New morals.
(d) New virtues.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?

2. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?

3. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?

4. According to James, 'each' and 'whole' are levels of what?

5. Fechner believed that consciousness is based on which of the following?

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