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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of science.
(b) Matters of fact.
(c) Matters of love.
(d) Matters of religion.

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

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

4. What is the title of Book Two, Part One?
(a) Of Pride and Humility.
(b) Of Sympathy.
(c) Of Moral Judgement.
(d) Of Passions.

5. What does Hume claim is a fictitious denomination?
(a) The idea of justice.
(b) The idea of unity.
(c) The idea of love.
(d) The idea of morals.

6. What idea does Hume bring in to distinguish between knowledge and probability?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Morals.
(c) Philosophical relations.
(d) Justice.

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

8. Which of the following passions does Hume call a bodily feeling?
(a) Rage.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Love.
(d) Pride.

9. 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 luck.
(c) They are features of people.
(d) They are features of the mind.

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

11. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?
(a) Relations, modes and substances.
(b) Solar, molar and code.
(c) Time, place and distance.
(d) Passions, prides and prejudices.

12. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) None of the men in the group would exist.
(b) There would be much immoral behavior.
(c) People would fall in love.
(d) The twentieth man would not exist.

13. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?
(a) Passions.
(b) Reality.
(c) Memory.
(d) Love.

14. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?
(a) Whatever your imagination allows.
(b) A circle of fire.
(c) A burning pole.
(d) A reddish orange blur.

15. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?
(a) A pineapple.
(b) An orange.
(c) A peach.
(d) A banana.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?

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

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

4. Hume thinks it is pointless to wonder about the existence of what?

5. What does Hume say is the chief exercise of the memory?

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