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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The microscope.
(b) The map.
(c) The knife.
(d) The fork.

2. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?
(a) True statements in mathematics.
(b) Truth in science.
(c) English grammar rules.
(d) Religious concepts.

3. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The spoon.
(b) The knife.
(c) The map.
(d) The fork.

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

5. What does Hume say is the only thing that can cause us to act?
(a) Identity.
(b) Experience.
(c) Reason.
(d) Passions.

6. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?
(a) New Jerusalem and Paris.
(b) Moscow and Prague.
(c) London and Edinborough.
(d) Glasgow and Liverpool.

7. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) Dead.
(b) Asleep.
(c) In a coma.
(d) In the middle of a seizure.

8. To whom does Hume say he should leave the study to productive passions?
(a) Theologists.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Scientists.
(d) School teachers.

9. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?
(a) An orange.
(b) A banana.
(c) A pineapple.
(d) A peach.

10. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?
(a) Relations, modes and substances.
(b) Time, place and distance.
(c) Passions, prides and prejudices.
(d) Solar, molar and code.

11. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?
(a) Vice and virtue.
(b) Passions and reason.
(c) Definitions and observations.
(d) Pride and prejudice.

12. Which French philosopher does Hume reference in this section?
(a) Camus.
(b) Malezieu.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Sartre.

13. How does Hume define productive passions?
(a) As those that produce feelings of numbness.
(b) As those that produce mental stimulants.
(c) As those that produce pleasure and pain.
(d) As those that produce images.

14. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Hate.
(b) Humility.
(c) Death.
(d) Pride.

15. How does Hume define responsive passions?
(a) As those that react to feelings of love.
(b) As those that react to productive passions.
(c) As those that react to the external world.
(d) As those that react to sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

2. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?

3. What does Hume say is limited?

4. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?

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

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