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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 the nature of Dewey's school?
(a) Rationalist.
(b) Empiricist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.

2. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which stance?
(a) Theism.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Rationalism.

3. The challenges of what kind of problems does James present in Chapter II?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Biological.
(c) Rational.
(d) Psychological.

4. What does "Answers to a Questionnaire" address?
(a) Laws.
(b) Government.
(c) Theism.
(d) Personal beliefs.

5. What is the first aspect of the truth that James points out?
(a) Connotation.
(b) Realism.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Rationalism.

6. What does James address in Chapter IV?
(a) Metaphysical problems.
(b) Direct experience.
(c) Continous percepts.
(d) Discrete concepts.

7. What term does James attribute to the love of wisdom?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Knowledge.

8. James claims that the belief in absolute negates the need for which of the following?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Faith.
(c) Experience.
(d) Action.

9. Chapter XII describes the relationship between novelty and what other quality?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Causation.

10. What term is defined as the function of consciousness?
(a) Perception.
(b) Cognition.
(c) Response action.
(d) Concept.

11. Who does James use in Lecture X to illustrate his point clearly?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Homer.
(c) Henry James.
(d) William Shakespeare.

12. Where did James experience an earthquake?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Nevada.

13. Chapter X describes the relationship between novelty and _________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Infinity.
(d) Discretion.

14. What is the name of the subject of "A Pluralistic Mystic"?
(a) Barrington.
(b) Blood.
(c) Bringinger.
(d) Barron.

15. In "Humanism and Truth Once More," what does James suggest others say pragmatism and humanism deny?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Reality.
(c) Monism.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lecture XII is a response to which of the following?

2. What does James say about motion, change, and activity?

3. Whom does James respond to in "Humanism and Truth Once More"?

4. Who was the first to say, "I think therefore I am"?

5. What concept does the story about the Philippine address discuss?

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