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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James call the immediate way of knowing something?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Representational.
(c) Intuitive.
(d) Perceptional.

2. What is the first aspect of the truth that James points out?
(a) Realism.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Connotation.

3. Chapter XII describes the relationship between novelty and what other quality?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Causation.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Philosophy.

4. James claims that it is difficult to imagine a world without the need for which of the following?
(a) War.
(b) Government.
(c) Advice.
(d) Love.

5. What is Lecture II of the meaning of truth lectures about?
(a) Ways of knowing.
(b) Ways of sharing.
(c) Ways of emoting.
(d) Ways of feeling.

6. What does James believe people tend to do with the truth?
(a) Neglect it.
(b) Spend it.
(c) Conserve it.
(d) Optimize it.

7. What term is defined as the state of consciousness considered subjectively?
(a) Representation.
(b) Thought.
(c) Cognition.
(d) Feeling.

8. What role does James attribute to being the point of beginning for the meaning of truth?
(a) Knower.
(b) Listener.
(c) Giver.
(d) Seeker.

9. What is James' conception of truth?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Melioristic.
(c) Pessimistic.
(d) Realitic.

10. What adjective does James use to describe concepts?
(a) Plural.
(b) Fulfilling.
(c) Continuous.
(d) Discrete.

11. Whom does James respond to in "Humanism and Truth Once More"?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Tim.
(c) Parton.
(d) Camdon.

12. In the story PhD Octopus, students do not deal with _________________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Skills.
(c) Truth.
(d) Knowledge.

13. Who stated that infinity defies enumeration?
(a) Plato.
(b) Descartes.
(c) James.
(d) Kant.

14. Whom does James respond to in "Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic"?
(a) Bode.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Brookes.
(d) Borden.

15. The challenges of what kind of problems does James present in Chapter II?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Rational.
(d) Biological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Answers to a Questionnaire" address?

2. What does James address in Chapter IV?

3. What does Chapter IX focus on?

4. According to James, what gives one the ability to know a good man when one sees him?

5. James relates that the truth has ____________ consequences.

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