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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 is the title of Book Two, Part One?
(a) Of Moral Judgement.
(b) Of Passions.
(c) Of Sympathy.
(d) Of Pride and Humility.

2. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) We have no sensory impression of it.
(b) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.
(c) It is not divisable.
(d) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.

3. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of love.
(b) Matters of fact.
(c) Matters of science.
(d) Matters of religion.

4. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?
(a) Perception.
(b) Insanity
(c) Immateriality.
(d) Love.

5. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) There would be much immoral behavior.
(b) The twentieth man would not exist.
(c) None of the men in the group would exist.
(d) People would fall in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?

2. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?

3. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?

4. Which of the following is another term used for passions?

5. What does Book One cover regarding human nature?

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