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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 1, Of Virtue and Vice in General.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say impression does not tell us?
(a) There isn't an internal world.
(b) There isn't an external world.
(c) Nothing exists.
(d) We are alive only in our minds.

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

3. What doctrine does Hume say he is rejecting regarding the will?
(a) Good will.
(b) The will of all men.
(c) Free will.
(d) Hate will.

4. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?
(a) They are features of people.
(b) They are features of metaphysics.
(c) They are features of the mind.
(d) They are features of luck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?

2. What is Hume's general goal in his treatise?

3. What does Hume say is the chief exercise of the memory?

4. What does Book Two cover regarding human nature?

5. What object does Hume say is sufficient enough to give him the idea of extension?

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