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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1, Of Pride and Humility.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) In a coma.
(b) Asleep.
(c) In the middle of a seizure.
(d) Dead.

2. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Pride.
(c) Hot and cold.
(d) Pain.

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

4. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(b) Free of life and imprisoned by life.
(c) Internally and externally.
(d) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.

5. 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 reddish orange blur.
(d) A burning pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?

2. What does Hume say he will use to discuss passion instead of physiology?

3. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?

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

5. What does Hume say is limited?

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