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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Meaning of Truth Section I (Lectures I-VII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does James attribute to being the point of beginning for the meaning of truth?
(a) Seeker.
(b) Giver.
(c) Knower.
(d) Listener.

2. What does James believe to be the prevalence of one set of ideas?
(a) Infinite.
(b) Experience.
(c) Convention.
(d) Action.

3. What does James attribute to determining response actions?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Concepts.
(d) Perceptions.

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

5. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Infinitely many.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position does James state believes everything is essentially the same?

3. The lecture about Royce adds to lectures on which topic?

4. What is the view that salvation of the world is not possible?

5. Who wrote the poem "To You"?

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