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

2. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Rationalist.
(b) Deductive.
(c) Dialectic.
(d) Inductive.

3. According to James, what is within the realm of sensory experience prior to cognition?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Intelligence.

4. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Religion.
(c) Experience.
(d) Common sense.

5. James believes that which viewpoint fills the needs of both religion and fact?
(a) Monism.
(b) Relgion.
(c) Pragmatism.
(d) Pantheism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What position does James say is the 'all-form'?

4. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What assertions does James make about ignorance?

3. What did you learn about Josiah Royce from James' lectures?

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

5. Why does James mention Hegel?

6. What are James' essential elements to religion?

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

8. Why does James claim that theism is unsatisfactory?

9. What is the monist position?

10. What is the rationalist position?

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