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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. James gave an address to the alumni of ______________.
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Radcliffe.
(d) Long Beach.
2. What does Chapter IX focus on?
(a) The concept of happiness.
(b) The concept of free will.
(c) The concept of novelty.
(d) The concept of intelligence.
3. What does Chapter VIII emphasize?
(a) Positive and negative.
(b) Intelligent and ignorant.
(c) Free will and meliorism.
(d) Discrete and continuous.
4. What is the name of the subject of "A Pluralistic Mystic"?
(a) Blood.
(b) Barrington.
(c) Barron.
(d) Bringinger.
5. In "Humanism and Truth Once More," what does James suggest others say pragmatism and humanism deny?
(a) Faith.
(b) Reality.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Monism.
6. Whom does James respond to in "Humanism and Truth Once More"?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Tim.
(c) Camdon.
(d) Parton.
7. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?
(a) Representation.
(b) Thought.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Cognition.
8. What does "Answers to a Questionnaire" address?
(a) Personal beliefs.
(b) Theism.
(c) Laws.
(d) Government.
9. What fellow empiricist does James claim to sympathize with most?
(a) Bode.
(b) Bergson.
(c) Kant.
(d) Bradley.
10. What does James call the conceptual way of knowing something?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Perceptional.
(c) Representational.
(d) Intuitive.
11. Who was the first to say, "I think therefore I am"?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Shakespeare.
12. Chapter XII describes the relationship between novelty and what other quality?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Causation.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Happiness.
13. What does James describe as the third virtue of pluralism?
(a) It is scientific.
(b) It is pluralistic.
(c) it is pragmatic.
(d) It is theistic.
14. According to James, what gives one the ability to know a good man when one sees him?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Good education.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Wisdom.
15. Who does James use in Lecture X to illustrate his point clearly?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Homer.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Henry James.
Short Answer Questions
1. James relates that the truth has ____________ consequences.
2. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture I relate to?
3. In the lectures about the meaning of truth, what does Lecture VIII critique?
4. Who stated that infinity defies enumeration?
5. Why does James say that feelings are important?
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