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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. Which of the following is an artificial virtue?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Promise-keeping.
(d) Hating.

2. What does Hume say we can direct onto others?
(a) Love.
(b) Passions.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Hate.

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

4. What does Hume say determines the will?
(a) Passions.
(b) Love.
(c) Reason.
(d) Virtue.

5. From where does Hume say we derive our feelings of love and hate?
(a) From objects.
(b) From our parents.
(c) From ourselves.
(d) From others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Hume state is an artificial virtue?

2. What does religion argue about free will?

3. Of what does Hume say we have a false sensation?

4. Which virtues does Hume say are instinctual?

5. What does Hume say none of his three motives of human nature are sufficient enough to produce?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does love and hatred differ from pride and humility?

2. Why does Hume think reason is the slave of the passions?

3. What point is Hume making by using the murder example?

4. What does Hume mean when he says one cannot derive an ought from an is?

5. How does Hume use murder as an example of morals?

6. Summarize Part Three of Book Two.

7. When do moral pleasures and pains occur?

8. Why does Hume claim women need a sentiment of chastity?

9. Why does Hume state that morality is not based on reason?

10. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?

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