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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. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Pride.
(b) Hate.
(c) Humility.
(d) Death.

2. What does Hume claim is a fictitious denomination?
(a) The idea of love.
(b) The idea of unity.
(c) The idea of justice.
(d) The idea of morals.

3. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The spoon.
(b) The fork.
(c) The map.
(d) The knife.

4. What does Hume say impression does not tell us?
(a) There isn't an external world.
(b) We are alive only in our minds.
(c) There isn't an internal world.
(d) Nothing exists.

5. Which of the following does Hume say can't cause the will to act?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Love.
(c) Reason.
(d) Virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say he will use to discuss passion instead of physiology?

2. What is the title of Book Two, Part One?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing that can cause us to act?

4. Hume thinks it is pointless to wonder about the existence of what?

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

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