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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does James define as an idea's argument with reality?
(a) Religion.
(b) Logic.
(c) Reason.
(d) Truth.

2. Fechner's faith saved him from which of the following, according to James?
(a) Illness.
(b) Pain.
(c) Fear.
(d) Death.

3. What position does James describe as being based on facts and pessimism?
(a) Rationalist.
(b) Empiricist.
(c) Monist.
(d) Pluralist.

4. In Lecture II, James outlines the meaning of ______________.
(a) Health.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lecture VIII relates pragmatism to which concept?

2. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?

3. What is the second sub-category of spiritualism, according to James?

4. What position does James state lacks intimacy?

5. What religion does James say relies on elaborate ceremony and hierarchy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James define the results of excess?

2. What are the qualities of saintliness which James defines?

3. What is pluralism?

4. What is common sense as James sees it? Do you agree?

5. Describe the pragmatic and pluralistic way of looking at "To You."

6. What did you learn about Josiah Royce from James' lectures?

7. How does James describe reasoning as a part of rationalism?

8. What is radical empiricism?

9. What is the monist position?

10. What are the types of unity that James describes?

(see the answer keys)

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