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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pluralistic Universe Section II (Lectures V-Appendix C).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James attribute to using parts to explain wholes?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Monism.

2. James claims that in excess, what can become gullibility?
(a) Strength.
(b) Religion.
(c) Charity.
(d) Virtue.

3. Which statement is true about James' thoughts on experiences?
(a) They are all related to determinism.
(b) They are all related to empiricism.
(c) They all revolve around theism.
(d) They are all related to each other.

4. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Dualistic theism.
(c) Monistic theism.
(d) Inductive theism.

5. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Religion.
(c) Unreality.
(d) Rationalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?

2. James says that mystical experience carries a sense of which of the following?

3. What does James use as an example to explain the significance of substance?

4. The first lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?

5. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?

(see the answer key)

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