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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 gives one the ability to know a good man when one sees him?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Good education.
(d) Intuition.

2. What does James describe as the second virtue of pluralism?
(a) Rational outlook.
(b) Pessimistic outlook.
(c) Melioristic outlook.
(d) Optimistic outlook.

3. What does James attribute to determining response actions?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Concepts.
(d) Perceptions.

4. What does James say about motion, change, and activity?
(a) They are all the same.
(b) They are always growing.
(c) They are unique to one another.
(d) They often stop moving forward.

5. Whom does James respond to in "Humanism and Truth Once More"?
(a) Tim.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Camdon.
(d) Parton.

6. What does James call the conceptual way of knowing something?
(a) Perceptional.
(b) Representational.
(c) Intuitive.
(d) Reasonable.

7. What does James describe as a secondary process?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Conception.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Abuse.

8. What does Chapter VIII emphasize?
(a) Free will and meliorism.
(b) Discrete and continuous.
(c) Intelligent and ignorant.
(d) Positive and negative.

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

10. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which concept?
(a) Lack of action.
(b) Realism.
(c) Call to action.
(d) Ignorance.

11. Who was the first to say, "I think therefore I am"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. What is James' conception of truth?
(a) Pessimistic.
(b) Realitic.
(c) Melioristic.
(d) Optimistic.

13. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Representation.
(c) Cognition.
(d) Thought.

14. What is the second aspect of the truth that James points out?
(a) Denotation.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Instinct.

15. According to James, what is the nature of Dewey's school?
(a) Rationalist.
(b) Monist.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Empiricist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Answers to a Questionnaire" address?

2. Why does James say that feelings are important?

3. What is PhD Octopus about?

4. Chapter XII describes the relationship between novelty and what other quality?

5. What does James discuss in Chapter V?

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