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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept does the story about the Philippine address discuss?
(a) German Expressionism.
(b) American Expansionism.
(c) French Imperialism.
(d) English Philosophy.

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

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

4. Why does James say that feelings are important?
(a) They are signs of consciousness.
(b) They are direct percepts of the world.
(c) They are signs of intelligence.
(d) They are responses to action.

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

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

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

8. In the meaning of truth lectures, what does Lecture III cover?
(a) The relationship between truth and lies.
(b) The relationship between truth and humanism.
(c) The relationship between excitement and truth.
(d) The relationship between truth and happiness.

9. What stance does the Philippine address defend?
(a) Anti-imperialism.
(b) Anti-social.
(c) Anti-expression.
(d) Conservativism.

10. What does James describe as the third virtue of pluralism?
(a) it is pragmatic.
(b) It is scientific.
(c) It is pluralistic.
(d) It is theistic.

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

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

13. Chapter 1 discuss the importance of which field?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Biochemistry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James address in Chapter IV?

2. "Answers to a Questionnaire" responds to which person?

3. Lecture XI discusses which concept?

4. What role does James attribute to being the point of beginning for the meaning of truth?

5. What adjective does James use to address precepts?

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