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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Some Problems of Philosophy Section I (Chapters I-VII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to James, there are two ways of looking at the whole of the universe. What are these ways?
(a) Faithfulness and unfaithfulness.
(b) Happiness and unhappiness.
(c) Unity and disunity.
(d) Love and hate.

2. What viewpoint does James attribute to being aggressive and radical?
(a) Monist.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Religious.
(d) Pantheistic.

3. What topic, in addition to monism, does James discuss in Chapter VII?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Percepts.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Metaphysics.

4. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Religious.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James describe as a secondary process?

2. 'Each-form,' according to James, allows for intimacy with which of the following?

3. The challenges of what kind of problems does James present in Chapter II?

4. Who says that concepts freeze movement?

5. What adjective does James use to address precepts?

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