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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 is the only thing that can cause us to act?
(a) Identity.
(b) Experience.
(c) Passions.
(d) Reason.

2. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?
(a) Morals about causes.
(b) Judgements about causes.
(c) Beliefs about causes.
(d) Sympathy about causes.

3. How does Hume define responsive passions?
(a) As those that react to sympathy.
(b) As those that react to feelings of love.
(c) As those that react to the external world.
(d) As those that react to productive passions.

4. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The fork.
(b) The knife.
(c) The spoon.
(d) The map.

5. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?
(a) Quality.
(b) Resemblance.
(c) Space and time.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?

3. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?

4. What does Hume says causation allows us to do which is vital for our survival?

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

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