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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lecture VII relates which of the following to pragmatism?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

2. How does James describe noetic quality?
(a) New morals.
(b) New happiness.
(c) New virtues.
(d) New knowledge.

3. Who believed that inclusive forms of consciousness are partly generated by less inclusive forms?
(a) James.
(b) Fechner.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Hegel.

4. What do Lectures XVI and XVII outline?
(a) Aspects of ascetism.
(b) Aspects of fanaticism.
(c) Aspects of mystical experience.
(d) Aspects of charity.

5. According to James, the absence of something can lead to a sense of which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Unreality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?

2. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?

3. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?

4. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?

5. Fechner's faith saved him from which of the following, according to James?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does James say about other theorists and their experiences?

2. What is the determinist stance?

3. Why does James believe that religion should be based on an individual level?

4. What are the types of unity that James describes?

5. How does James describe reasoning as a part of rationalism?

6. For a man to experience the divine, what does James insist he must do?

7. What is the rationalist position?

8. According to James, what drives human behavior?

9. How does James define the results of excess?

10. What is radical empiricism?

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