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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 Josiah Royce's approach?
(a) Empirical.
(b) Instinctual.
(c) Reasonable.
(d) Deductive.

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

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

4. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?
(a) The meaning or importance of a thing.
(b) The decision one makes to become happy.
(c) The motivation one person has to change.
(d) The significance of a person.

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

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

7. What is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Meliorism.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Optimism.

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

9. What does James say life consists of?
(a) Infrequent re-ordering process.
(b) Constant re-ordering process.
(c) Constant ignorance.
(d) Inconsistent ignorance.

10. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Infinitely many.
(d) Two.

11. James says that limitations in will cause which of the following?
(a) Unintelligence.
(b) Attention.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Common sense.

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

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

14. In determinist stance, James describes superhuman as which of the following?
(a) Finite.
(b) Unintelligence.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Infinite.

15. James states that which viewpoint is the process for determining truth?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Pluralism.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?

2. What word does James associate with prayer?

3. What does James attribute to using wholes to explain parts?

4. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?

5. What does James identify as a "sick soul"?

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