View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Charity.
(b) Strength of the soul.
(c) Purity.
(d) Intelligence.

3. James asserts that inquiry is secondly designed to evaluate which of the following?
(a) The significance of a person.
(b) The decision one makes to become happy.
(c) The motivation one person has to change.
(d) The meaning or importance of a thing.

4. Which phrase does James use to describe common sense?
(a) Symptom of aging.
(b) Cycle of life.
(c) Thinking pattern.
(d) Stage of development.

5. James believes the salvation approach relies on what kind of experience?
(a) Divine.
(b) Happy.
(c) Depressing.
(d) Solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?

2. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?

3. According to James, which of the following is not an essential element to religion?

4. The third lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

5. What is the second concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the qualities of saintliness which James defines?

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

3. What is immanent operation?

4. What is common sense as James sees it? Do you agree?

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

6. How does James define the results of excess?

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

8. Why does James mention Hegel?

9. What is pluralism?

10. Why does James claim that theism is unsatisfactory?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 606 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample