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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Book Two cover regarding human nature?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Passions.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Sympathies.
2. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?
(a) A burning pole.
(b) A reddish orange blur.
(c) Whatever your imagination allows.
(d) A circle of fire.
3. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Abstract concepts.
(b) Reason.
(c) The imagination.
(d) Mathematics.
4. 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 metaphysics.
(b) They are features of the mind.
(c) They are features of luck.
(d) They are features of people.
5. What is the title of Book Two, Part Two?
(a) Of Sympathy.
(b) Of Laughter.
(c) Of Passioned Senses.
(d) Of Love and Hatred.
6. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Pride.
(b) Death.
(c) Humility.
(d) Hate.
7. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is a God.
(b) That there is an internal world.
(c) That there is an external world.
(d) That there is life beyond death.
8. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?
(a) Insanity
(b) Perception.
(c) Immateriality.
(d) Love.
9. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?
(a) Life has two roads.
(b) We can either live in right or wrong.
(c) A truth can be split into two.
(d) A truth has four parts.
10. From where does Hume say sensation arises?
(a) The eyes.
(b) The soul.
(c) The spirit.
(d) The stomach.
11. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?
(a) Skepticism.
(b) Innate ideas.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Empiricism.
12. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?
(a) To understand something we must take a step back and look at it.
(b) To understand something we must break it down into smaller parts.
(c) To understand something we must get to its core.
(d) To understand something we must make it bigger.
13. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?
(a) The external world.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) The internal world.
14. What does Book One cover regarding human nature?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Passions.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Sympathies.
15. Which of the following best defines empiricism?
(a) Our knowledge of the world comes enitirely through experience.
(b) Our morals are not truly our own thoughts.
(c) The government should have control over our lives.
(d) Our knowledge of the world comes entirely from our parents.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
2. Why does Hume see pride as an agreeable impression?
3. Which of the following was also a British empiricist?
4. What is the name of the system used to prove the existence of God?
5. Which idea comes in for extended analysis in Book One, Part Three?
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