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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3, Of the Other Virtues and Vices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book Three, Part One?
(a) Of Direct Passions.
(b) Of Love and Hate.
(c) Of Virtue and Vice in General.
(d) Of Indirect Passions.

2. What connects our passions to our judgements about others?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

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

4. What best describes Hume's conception of the will?
(a) An intrinsic force.
(b) A power.
(c) A feeling.
(d) An extrinsic force.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Hume say can't cause the will to act?

2. Which of the following is an artificial virtue?

3. Into what two types does Hume divide direct passions?

4. What is benevolence?

5. Hume says impressions are divided into what?

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