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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section I (Lectures I-IV).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which definition is most close to the definition of healthy-mindedness?
(a) The ability to continue loving somebody even when one is depressed.
(b) The longing to see others become happy.
(c) The decision to become happy when depressed.
(d) A deliberate attempt to see the goodness in the world and in one's personal life.

4. Which of the following does James not identify as a quality of saintliness?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Purity.
(c) Strength of the soul.
(d) Charity.

5. In Lecture VI, what does James relate to pragmatism?
(a) Religion.
(b) Truth.
(c) Logic.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does James attribute to being the 'each-form'?

2. What does James describe as the champion's abstraction?

3. What is the view that salvation is neither impossible nor inevitable?

4. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?

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

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