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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 stance does the Philippine address defend?
(a) Anti-imperialism.
(b) Anti-expression.
(c) Conservativism.
(d) Anti-social.

2. What does "Answers to a Questionnaire" address?
(a) Government.
(b) Theism.
(c) Personal beliefs.
(d) Laws.

3. According to James, what can be an object for several minds?
(a) Experience.
(b) Motion.
(c) Action.
(d) Ignorance.

4. What term does James attribute to the love of wisdom?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Psychology.

5. What does Chapter VIII emphasize?
(a) Positive and negative.
(b) Free will and meliorism.
(c) Intelligent and ignorant.
(d) Discrete and continuous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story about the earthquake, James focuses on what part of the experience?

2. What is the first aspect of the truth that James points out?

3. Lecture XII is a response to which of the following?

4. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?

5. Who was the first to say, "I think therefore I am"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the types of causes that James focuses on?

2. What is James' principle of causality?

3. What does James say about the Chicago School?

4. What is Lecture I about?

5. What does James say about war? Do you agree?

6. What is significant to note about the essay topics James chooses?

7. What is Lecture II about?

8. What does James discuss in Chapter V?

9. What are the virtues of pluralism that James discusses?

10. What is Lecture VIII about?

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