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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) English Philosophy.
(b) American Expansionism.
(c) German Expressionism.
(d) French Imperialism.

2. James relates that the truth has ____________ consequences.
(a) Painless.
(b) Immediate.
(c) Practical.
(d) Simple.

3. What does James claim his philosophy requires from followers?
(a) Stoutness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Faith.
(d) Intelligence.

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

5. What adjective does James use to address precepts?
(a) Plural.
(b) Continuous.
(c) Fulfilling.
(d) Discrete.

6. According to James, what is Emerson's good quality?
(a) He is an excellent writer.
(b) He does not lie.
(c) He is true to his own expression.
(d) He is truly happy.

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

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

9. What is PhD Octopus about?
(a) Students failing classes because they do not learn enough.
(b) Students gaining significant knowledge.
(c) Students cheating on tests.
(d) Students being directed toward passing tests.

10. Lecture XII is a response to which of the following?
(a) Herbert's criticism.
(b) Connotation and denotation.
(c) Assertions of faith.
(d) Shakespeare's work.

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

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

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

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

15. What topic, in addition to monism, does James discuss in Chapter VII?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Percepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James call the immediate way of knowing something?

2. John Dewey was the founder of ___________.

3. Lecture XI discusses which concept?

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

5. Who does James use in Lecture X to illustrate his point clearly?

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