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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 4, On the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?
(a) Time, place and distance.
(b) Passions, prides and prejudices.
(c) Solar, molar and code.
(d) Relations, modes and substances.

2. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) Dead.
(b) In a coma.
(c) In the middle of a seizure.
(d) Asleep.

3. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Women and men.
(b) Images and words.
(c) Impressions and ideas.
(d) Feeling and thinking.

4. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?
(a) Perception.
(b) Insanity
(c) Immateriality.
(d) Love.

5. By what does Hume say cousins are connected?
(a) Family.
(b) Fate.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Causation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Book One cover regarding human nature?

2. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?

3. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?

4. What system does Hume say is absurd?

5. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

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