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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. What determines whether action is good or bad?
(a) Society.
(b) Actions.
(c) Morality.
(d) Motives.

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The microscope.
(b) The knife.
(c) The spoon.
(d) The robin.

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

4. What is benevolence?
(a) The pleasure one gets from seeing pain.
(b) The desire to make someone you love happy.
(c) Suppressed anger at someone you love.
(d) The willingness to help people you don't know.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?

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

3. What is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?

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

5. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?

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