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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. James says that for a man to experience the divine, what must he let go?
(a) Longing.
(b) Belongings.
(c) Love.
(d) Ego.

4. What is the first concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Logic.

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

6. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?
(a) Monist.
(b) Religious.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Pluralist.

7. Who believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) James.
(c) Biben.
(d) Hegel.

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

9. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?
(a) Ability.
(b) Religion.
(c) Experience.
(d) Happiness.

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

11. What word does James associate with prayer?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Transaction.
(c) Rational.
(d) Morals.

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

13. What kind of god does James find in the all-form?
(a) Intimate.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Impersonal.
(d) Loving.

14. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Religion.
(c) Truth.
(d) Experience.

15. According to James, noetic pluralism indicates which of the following?
(a) A god might not exist.
(b) A god might not be all-knowing.
(c) A god could never have existed.
(d) A god might have once existed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does James state lacks intimacy?

2. How does James describe ineffability?

3. What position does James describe as being based on principles of intellectualism and idealism?

4. How does James describe noetic quality?

5. What does James say life consists of?

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