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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix, An Abstract of a Book Lately Published, Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hume says every simple impression is attended with what?
(a) A correspondent title.
(b) A correspondent word.
(c) A correspondent idea.
(d) A correspondent sentence.

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

3. Which of the following is an abstract concept?
(a) God.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Man.
(d) A chair.

4. Under what two general classes do relations come?
(a) Mirror and microscope.
(b) Mental and imagination.
(c) Resemblance and contrariety.
(d) Razor and fork.

5. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Feeliing.
(c) Love.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?

3. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?

4. What does Hume say performs the task of adding a head to the body?

5. From where does Hume say facts come?

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