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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whom does James respond to in "Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic"?
(a) Borden.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Bode.
(d) Brookes.
2. James claims that it is difficult to imagine a world without the need for which of the following?
(a) Government.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Advice.
3. What is the second aspect of the truth that James points out?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Denotation.
(d) Pessimism.
4. What is the name of the theory James describes as believing that time is always coming in small drops?
(a) Discontinuity Theory.
(b) Awareness Theory.
(c) Discretion Theory.
(d) Continuous Theory.
5. What topic, in addition to monism, does James discuss in Chapter VII?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Percepts.
(d) Pluralism.
6. What does James say about motion, change, and activity?
(a) They are always growing.
(b) They are all the same.
(c) They are unique to one another.
(d) They often stop moving forward.
7. What challenging research does James address in a short story?
(a) Psychical research.
(b) Biological research.
(c) Anatomical research.
(d) Psychological research.
8. According to James, what is Emerson's good quality?
(a) He is an excellent writer.
(b) He is true to his own expression.
(c) He is truly happy.
(d) He does not lie.
9. Who stated that infinity defies enumeration?
(a) Kant.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Plato.
(d) James.
10. What is Lecture II of the meaning of truth lectures about?
(a) Ways of emoting.
(b) Ways of feeling.
(c) Ways of knowing.
(d) Ways of sharing.
11. According to James, what is the nature of Dewey's school?
(a) Empiricist.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.
12. What is James' conception of truth?
(a) Melioristic.
(b) Realitic.
(c) Pessimistic.
(d) Optimistic.
13. "Answers to a Questionnaire" responds to which person?
(a) Bergson.
(b) Kim.
(c) Kant.
(d) Pratt.
14. Critics of pragmatism assert that pragmatism is a revision of which stance?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Theism.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Rationalism.
15. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?
(a) Optimize it.
(b) Conserve it.
(c) Spend it.
(d) Neglect it.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to James, what gives one the ability to know a good man when one sees him?
2. Chapter X describes the relationship between novelty and _________.
3. What term does James attribute to the love of wisdom?
4. What term is defined as the function of consciousness?
5. In the story PhD Octopus, students do not deal with _________________.
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