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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 3, Of the Will and Direct Passions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hume says causation allows us to do which is vital for our survival?
(a) Make predictions.
(b) Believe in a deity.
(c) Recall past events.
(d) Fall in love.

3. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is a God.
(b) That there is an external world.
(c) That there is an internal world.
(d) That there is life beyond death.

4. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?
(a) Innate ideas.
(b) Skepticism.
(c) Empiricism.
(d) Metaphysics.

5. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Abstract concepts.
(c) Reason.
(d) The imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?

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

3. What does Hume want to know about individuals in this section?

4. How does Hume define intuition?

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

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