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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 4, On the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hume define intuition?
(a) Recalling past events.
(b) Seeing the relation.
(c) Seeing the future.
(d) Imagining what will happen.

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

3. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is an external world.
(b) That there is a God.
(c) That there is an internal world.
(d) That there is life beyond death.

4. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?
(a) Passions and reason.
(b) Pride and prejudice.
(c) Definitions and observations.
(d) Vice and virtue.

5. Hume says impressions are divided into what?
(a) Pride and passions.
(b) Ideas and words.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Sensation and reflexion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

2. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?

3. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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