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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. Humans react in what way to new information, according to James?
(a) They are accepting of new information.
(b) They are comforted by new information.
(c) They are angry at new information.
(d) They are wary of new information.

2. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?
(a) Homer.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Faulkner.

3. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Individual.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Rational.

4. What is the concept called where one believes that everything has an opposite that is negated?
(a) Dialectic.
(b) Inductive.
(c) Deductive.
(d) Rationalist.

5. What position is described as holding that even in vast fields of sameness, there is still difference?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Monism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Intellectualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James describe noetic quality?

2. James says that the second way of looking at "To You" is in which position?

3. James describes the parts of the universe as being which of the following?

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

5. James states purity arises from a sense of sensitivity to _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James define the results of excess?

2. What are James' essential elements to religion?

3. Why does James claim that theism is unsatisfactory?

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

5. Why does James believe that religion should be based on an individual level?

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

7. Why does James mention Hegel?

8. What is pluralism?

9. How is James' concept of philosophy different from your own?

10. What is the monist position?

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