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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1, Of Pride and Humility.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is an abstract concept?
(a) Facebook.
(b) Man.
(c) God.
(d) A chair.

2. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?
(a) They are features of people.
(b) They are features of luck.
(c) They are features of metaphysics.
(d) They are features of the mind.

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

4. What does Hume say impression does not tell us?
(a) We are alive only in our minds.
(b) Nothing exists.
(c) There isn't an internal world.
(d) There isn't an external world.

5. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?
(a) Misguided theories.
(b) A metaphysical position.
(c) Lopsided theories.
(d) Counterintuitive positions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is the only thing that can make uncaused choices?

2. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing that can cause us to act?

4. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

5. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?

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