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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected with death.
(b) When they are connected with natural instincts.
(c) When they are connected with vice.
(d) When they are connected to artificial virtue.

2. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?
(a) To understand something we must break it down into smaller parts.
(b) To understand something we must get to its core.
(c) To understand something we must make it bigger.
(d) To understand something we must take a step back and look at it.

3. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?
(a) Morally primitive people.
(b) People with mental illness.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Morally corrupt people.

4. What is the title of Book Two, Part Three?
(a) Of Free Will and Indirect Passion.
(b) Of Justice and Morality.
(c) Of Love and Hate.
(d) Of the Will and Direct Passions.

5. According to Hume, which of the following is a motive built into human nature?
(a) General sympathy.
(b) General benevolence.
(c) Self-interest.
(d) Personability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a disposition involved with the passions?

2. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?

3. From where does Hume say we derive our feelings of love and hate?

4. What determines whether action is good or bad?

5. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

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