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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?
(a) Space and time.
(b) Resemblance.
(c) Identity.
(d) Quality.

2. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) There would be much immoral behavior.
(b) People would fall in love.
(c) The twentieth man would not exist.
(d) None of the men in the group would exist.

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

4. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Internally and externally.
(b) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.
(c) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(d) Free of life and imprisoned by life.

5. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
(a) Pride.
(b) Hot and cold.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?

2. To whom does Hume say he should leave the study to productive passions?

3. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?

4. How does Hume define passions?

5. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hume claim the mind perceives space?

2. Define skepticism.

3. How does Hume claim an idea is formed?

4. What is the microscope principle?

5. What does Hume say are simple perceptions?

6. What is the difference between responsive and productive passions?

7. How does Hume divide the different kinds of philosophical relations?

8. Why does Hume think we love the rich and admire only people we know?

9. What is the razor principle?

10. Why does Hume think that memory is stronger than imagination?

(see the answer keys)

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