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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say are the two types of reason?
(a) Demonstrative and probability.
(b) Respect and contempt.
(c) Envy and respect.
(d) Love and hate.

2. What kind of virtues does Part Two examine?
(a) Artificial virtues.
(b) Superficial virtues.
(c) Natural virtues.
(d) Moral distinctions.

3. By what does Hume say all human action is determined?
(a) Morals.
(b) Love.
(c) Impressions.
(d) Perception.

4. What is benevolence?
(a) The pleasure one gets from seeing pain.
(b) The willingness to help people you don't know.
(c) Suppressed anger at someone you love.
(d) The desire to make someone you love happy.

5. Of what does vice give us the impression?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Love.
(c) Pain.
(d) Hate.

6. What does Hume think a proper understanding of the will help us to understand?
(a) Free will.
(b) The passions.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

7. Which virtues does Hume say are instinctual?
(a) Natural virtues.
(b) Artificial virtues.
(c) External virtues.
(d) Internal virtues.

8. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected to artificial virtue.
(b) When they are connected with vice.
(c) When they are connected with death.
(d) When they are connected with natural instincts.

9. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Envy.
(c) Malice.
(d) Benevolence.

10. What do defenders of free will believe about the will?
(a) It can help us to think clearly.
(b) It can choose without influence of cause.
(c) It can control our emotions.
(d) It gives us our morals.

11. Why does Hume think humans, unlike other animals, cannot satisfy their needs from nature alone?
(a) They have more desires than they have means to meet them.
(b) They have to live in an isolated space.
(c) They can't live in a primitive state.
(d) They have an active mind and need to discover new things.

12. What is Hume's general goal in his treatise?
(a) To explain the similarities between love and hate.
(b) To explain the origins of vice and virtue.
(c) To explain morality.
(d) To explain the origins of ideas and impressions.

13. To what does Hume say virtue is tied?
(a) Disagreeableness.
(b) Agreeableness.
(c) Inability.
(d) Ability.

14. Which of the following is a quality that gives rise to moral sentiment?
(a) Qualities useful to self.
(b) Humor.
(c) Listening.
(d) Conversation skills.

15. What virtue does Hume claim is needed to maintain the family unit?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an artificial virtue?

2. According to what does Hume say we judge individuals ?

3. When does one feel the impression of volition?

4. What is Hume's argument against religion's view on free will?

5. What kind of people does Hume say we admire?

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