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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Varieties of Religious Experience Section 2 (Lectures XI-Postcript).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does James describe ineffability?
(a) The inability to express virtue.
(b) The inability to express ascetism.
(c) The inability to express charity.
(d) The inability to express experience.

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

3. After the first act, James believes that people will then act out of _____________.
(a) Logic.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Instinct.

4. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.
(a) Purity.
(b) Inconsistency.
(c) Ascetism.
(d) Happiness.

5. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?
(a) A moral obligation.
(b) A vice.
(c) Gullibility.
(d) A religious obligation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?

2. James believes that people will first act out of _____________.

3. James connects religious manifestation to ______________.

4. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.

5. James says that for a man to experience the divine, what must he let go?

(see the answer key)

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