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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pragmatism Section II (Lectures V-VIII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does James describe as being a mental mode of adaptation to reality?
(a) Logic.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Theory.
(d) Rationalism.

2. James says that for an instantaneous conversion, it is necessary for a person to know which of the following?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Disharmony.
(d) Sadness.

3. What type of unity does James define as being the relationship of things that seem to tell a story together?
(a) Empirical.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Beings.
(d) Casual.

4. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Meliorism.

5. 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) Moral vs. immoral.
(d) Being vs. doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James, religion cannot exist on which of the following?

2. What word does James associate with prayer?

3. James says that the second way of looking at "To You" is in which position?

4. James identifies a substance through which of the following?

5. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

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