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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 4, On the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Feeling and thinking.
(b) Images and words.
(c) Women and men.
(d) Impressions and ideas.

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

3. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) Asleep.
(b) In a coma.
(c) In the middle of a seizure.
(d) Dead.

4. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?
(a) Innate ideas.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Metaphysics.

5. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The spoon.
(b) The fork.
(c) The map.
(d) The knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?

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

3. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?

4. What does Hume say is limited?

5. Which idea comes in for extended analysis in Book One, Part Three?

(see the answer key)

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