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

2. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?
(a) Society.
(b) The emotions.
(c) The passions.
(d) The will.

3. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?
(a) Reaction and action.
(b) Imagination and mind.
(c) Sense and reason.
(d) Love and hate.

4. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.
(b) We have no sensory impression of it.
(c) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.
(d) It is not divisable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?

2. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?

3. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?

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

5. Which of the following is another term used for passions?

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