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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?
(a) We can either live in right or wrong.
(b) A truth has four parts.
(c) A truth can be split into two.
(d) Life has two roads.

2. How does Hume define respect?
(a) Feelings of deep envy towards another person.
(b) Loving someone you want to be and perhaps could be.
(c) Feelings of love and humility towards another person.
(d) Listening to someone you don't like.

3. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They are a solid fact.
(b) They can only be divided into four.
(c) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.
(d) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.

4. What does Hume say happens to justice over time?
(a) It gets more complex.
(b) It gets less just.
(c) It is needed less and less.
(d) It gets simpler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

2. Which of the following was also a British empiricist?

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

4. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

5. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?

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