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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 kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Rational.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Individual.

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

3. In the meaning of truth lectures, what does Lecture III cover?
(a) The relationship between truth and lies.
(b) The relationship between truth and humanism.
(c) The relationship between excitement and truth.
(d) The relationship between truth and happiness.

4. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Empiricist.
(b) Rationalist.
(c) Pluralist.
(d) Monist.

5. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?
(a) Plural.
(b) Generic.
(c) Casual.
(d) Aesthetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James, 'each' and 'whole' are levels of what?

2. Lecture VII relates which of the following to pragmatism?

3. Royce says that ignorance is which of the following?

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

5. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?

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