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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. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Feeliing.
(c) Reality.
(d) Love.

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

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

4. How does Hume define anger?
(a) The desire to be alone.
(b) The desire to be self-destructive.
(c) The need to scream and shout at the nearest object.
(d) The desire to cause pain to someone you hate.

5. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.
(b) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(c) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(d) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?

3. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?

4. What does Hume call romantic love?

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

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