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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3, Of the Other Virtues and Vices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is an internal world.
(b) That there is an external world.
(c) That there is life beyond death.
(d) That there is a God.

2. What does Book One cover regarding human nature?
(a) Sympathies.
(b) Passions.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Knowledge.

3. What does Hume say is limited?
(a) Family life.
(b) Social morals.
(c) The capacity to feel love.
(d) The capacity of the mind.

4. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(b) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.
(c) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(d) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.

5. Under what two general classes do relations come?
(a) Resemblance and contrariety.
(b) Razor and fork.
(c) Mental and imagination.
(d) Mirror and microscope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book Two, Part Three?

2. What virtue allows humans to be governed?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?

4. What kind of soul does Hume believe does not exist?

5. Which of the following was also a British empiricist?

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