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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 do defenders of free will believe about the will?
(a) It can control our emotions.
(b) It gives us our morals.
(c) It can help us to think clearly.
(d) It can choose without influence of cause.

2. What do moral judgments intrinsically motivate?
(a) Vice.
(b) Enthusiasm.
(c) Action.
(d) Artifical pain.

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

4. How does Hume define demonstration?
(a) Connecting the relation.
(b) Identifying the relation.
(c) Hiding the relation.
(d) Deriving the relation.

5. When does one feel the impression of volition?
(a) Whenever one desires good.
(b) Whenever one desires hate.
(c) Whenever one desires company.
(d) Whenever one desires love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

2. What does Hume say societies need to defend themselves against attack?

3. What does Hume say justice must be to motivate us?

4. From where does Hume say facts come?

5. What does Hume say are the two types of reason?

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