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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doctrine does Hume say he is rejecting regarding the will?
(a) Free will.
(b) Hate will.
(c) The will of all men.
(d) Good will.

2. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?
(a) Moral sentiment.
(b) Self-interest.
(c) Family values.
(d) A sense of justice.

3. What is Hume's general goal in his treatise?
(a) To explain the similarities between love and hate.
(b) To explain the origins of ideas and impressions.
(c) To explain morality.
(d) To explain the origins of vice and virtue.

4. Which of the following is a group of contrary?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Benevolence and anger.
(c) Pity and malice.
(d) Respect and contempt.

5. What was required to regulate society once it had evolved into a certain order?
(a) Religion.
(b) Justice.
(c) Morality.
(d) Passion.

6. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?
(a) They understand us.
(b) They don't judge us.
(c) It is easier to talk to them.
(d) They resemble us.

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

8. What virtue allows humans to be governed?
(a) Politeness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Sympathy.

9. What does Hume say justice must be to motivate us?
(a) Fair.
(b) Individualistic.
(c) Moral.
(d) Interesting.

10. Why do individuals want to fake the practice of virtue?
(a) The want moral approval.
(b) They want to be accepted by God.
(c) They want to make friends.
(d) They want to fit into society.

11. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?
(a) They cannot explain people.
(b) The cannot explain society.
(c) They cannot explain obligation.
(d) They cannot explain life.

12. What is the title of Book Three, Part Two?
(a) Of Justice and Injustice.
(b) Of Morals and Immorals.
(c) Of Religion and Atheism.
(d) Of Love and Hate.

13. What connects our passions to our judgements about others?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

14. What is the title of Book Three, Part One?
(a) Of Virtue and Vice in General.
(b) Of Indirect Passions.
(c) Of Love and Hate.
(d) Of Direct Passions.

15. According to Hume, which of the following is a motive built into human nature?
(a) General sympathy.
(b) Self-interest.
(c) Personability.
(d) General benevolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Hume say virtue is tied?

2. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?

3. Which virtues does Hume say are culturally evolved?

4. What kind of virtues does Part Two examine?

5. What is the general title of Book Three?

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