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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. Who believed that inclusive forms of consciousness are partly generated by less inclusive forms?
(a) James.
(b) Fechner.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Wordsworth.

2. What is the second concept Fechner uses in his reasoning?
(a) Difference.
(b) Comparison.
(c) Theism.
(d) Personalism.

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

4. What viewpoint does James believe tends to retreat and accommodate?
(a) Pluralist.
(b) Monist.
(c) Religious.
(d) Intellectual.

5. According to James, beliefs are based on which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Experience.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?

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

3. What type of unity does James describe as a preceding event causing a following event?

4. In excess, what does James assert that virtue becomes?

5. According to James, the more dramatic examples of conversion tend to be which of the following?

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