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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 stronger than imagination?
(a) Passions.
(b) Memory.
(c) Love.
(d) Reality.

2. What idea does Hume bring in to distinguish between knowledge and probability?
(a) Morals.
(b) Philosophical relations.
(c) Justice.
(d) Love and hate.

3. What does Hume say takes precedence over ideas?
(a) Reason.
(b) Words.
(c) Impressions.
(d) Passions.

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

5. Hume thinks it is pointless to wonder about the existence of what?
(a) The nuclear family.
(b) The external world and external objects.
(c) The perfect man or woman for ourselves.
(d) The internal world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of philosophers does Hume claim are confused themselves?

3. Under what two general classes do relations come?

4. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?

5. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?

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