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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. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?
(a) A circle of fire.
(b) Whatever your imagination allows.
(c) A burning pole.
(d) A reddish orange blur.

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

3. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) The external world.
(c) The internal world.
(d) Imagination.

4. Which of the following is a quality that gives rise to moral sentiment?
(a) Listening.
(b) Conversation skills.
(c) Humor.
(d) Qualities useful to self.

5. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?
(a) Religion.
(b) Society.
(c) Human senses.
(d) Human passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say we can direct onto others?

2. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?

3. What does Hume say conceals the rest of the person's body that he sees?

4. What passion does Hume say pity is like?

5. What is the title of Book Three, Part Two?

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