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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?
(a) Religion.
(b) Human passion.
(c) Human senses.
(d) Society.

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The robin.
(b) The microscope.
(c) The spoon.
(d) The knife.

3. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They can only be divided into four.
(b) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.
(c) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.
(d) They are a solid fact.

4. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?
(a) An ink spot.
(b) A dirt spot.
(c) A black spot.
(d) A lead spot.

5. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Death.
(b) Pride.
(c) Humility.
(d) Hate.

6. What does Hume say he will use to discuss passion instead of physiology?
(a) Experience.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Symbolism.

7. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?
(a) Puts them in any order it pleases.
(b) Introduces complex ideas.
(c) Disposes of them.
(d) Adds color and light.

8. What does Hume says causation allows us to do which is vital for our survival?
(a) Believe in a deity.
(b) Make predictions.
(c) Recall past events.
(d) Fall in love.

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

10. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Images and words.
(b) Impressions and ideas.
(c) Women and men.
(d) Feeling and thinking.

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

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

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

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

15. To whom does Hume say he should leave the study to productive passions?
(a) Scholars.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Theologists.
(d) School teachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hume say helps us produce belief?

3. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?

4. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?

5. What kind of philosophers does Hume claim are confused themselves?

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