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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. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?
(a) Logic.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Theory.
(d) Common sense.

2. James holds that in which stance does the mind makes connections between ideas that are just as valid as other truths?
(a) Radical rationalism.
(b) Conservative rationalism.
(c) Radical empiricism.
(d) Conservative empiricism.

3. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express charity.
(b) The inability to express virtue.
(c) The inability to express ascetism.
(d) The inability to express experience.

4. James says that what kind of people experience a sense of unreality?
(a) Those who are thankful.
(b) Those who have nothing.
(c) Those who are depressed.
(d) Those who are happy.

5. James describes the parts of the universe as being which of the following?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Individualized.
(c) Discontinuous.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

2. James says that other theorists originate from what type of experience?

3. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?

4. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.

5. In determinist stance, James describes superhuman as which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is immanent operation?

2. What is the monist position?

3. How does James define religion?

4. What does James say that truth is for pragmatists?

5. What assertions does James make about ignorance?

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

7. What information about Bergson does James want the reader to take note of?

8. How does James define the results of excess?

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

10. What are James' thoughts about suicide?

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