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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 3, Of the Will and Direct Passions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book one, Part Three?
(a) Morals of the World.
(b) Injustice Versus Justice.
(c) Of Space and Time.
(d) Of Knowledge and Probability.

2. Why can pride and humility not be reduced to other passions?
(a) They are solid features of our lives.
(b) They are fundamental features of the human mind.
(c) They are a simple impression.
(d) They are too complex to be be separated.

3. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?
(a) Judgements about causes.
(b) Beliefs about causes.
(c) Morals about causes.
(d) Sympathy about causes.

4. How does Hume define demonstration?
(a) Deriving the relation.
(b) Hiding the relation.
(c) Identifying the relation.
(d) Connecting the relation.

5. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Senses.
(c) Reason.
(d) Objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hume define intuition?

2. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?

3. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

4. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?

5. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?

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