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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which virtues does Hume say are culturally evolved?
(a) Natural virtues.
(b) Artificial virtues.
(c) Vulgar virtues.
(d) Judgemental virtues.

2. What is the general title of Book Three?
(a) Of Humans.
(b) Of Morals.
(c) Of Passions.
(d) Of Nature.

3. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Reason.
(b) The imagination.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Abstract concepts.

4. What does Hume say are the only two things we have in our minds?
(a) Judgements and non-judgements.
(b) Ideas and impressions.
(c) Vice and virtues.
(d) Love and hate.

5. What does Hume say will is instead of a power?
(a) A faculty.
(b) A religious state.
(c) A euphoric state.
(d) A passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?

2. What kind of passion does Hume say is a mistake to confuse as reason?

3. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?

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

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

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