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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. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Religion.
(c) Strength.
(d) Charity.

2. Who believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Biben.
(b) James.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Wordsworth.

3. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Being vs. doing.
(b) Having vs. seeing.
(c) Moral vs. immoral.
(d) Virtue vs. vices.

4. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are angry at new information.
(b) They are accepting of new information.
(c) They are wary of new information.
(d) They are comforted by new information.

5. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?
(a) Depression.
(b) Morality.
(c) Authority.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does James define as an idea's argument with reality?

2. What position does James describe as being based on principles of intellectualism and idealism?

3. What is the first sub-category of spiritualism that James discusses?

4. James suggests that the experience of evil is necessary from an existential viewpoint to access deep levels of which of the following?

5. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James designate the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not?

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

3. How is James' concept of philosophy different from your own?

4. Describe the pragmatic and pluralistic way of looking at "To You."

5. What is pluralism?

6. How does James define the results of excess?

7. How does James describe reasoning as a part of empiricism?

8. What is the rationalist position?

9. Why does James mention Hegel?

10. Describe the monistic way of looking at "To You."

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