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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. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?
(a) Sense and reason.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Imagination and mind.
(d) Reaction and action.

2. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?
(a) The internal world.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) The external world.
(d) Imagination.

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

4. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?
(a) Life has two roads.
(b) A truth can be split into two.
(c) We can either live in right or wrong.
(d) A truth has four parts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?

2. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?

3. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?

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

5. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?

(see the answer key)

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