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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 does Hume say is the chief exercise of the memory?
(a) To confound critics.
(b) To find the essence of an idea.
(c) To put simple ideas in order.
(d) To ignite the imagination.

2. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?
(a) A dirt spot.
(b) A black spot.
(c) A lead spot.
(d) An ink spot.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?

2. What does Hume say is the only thing senses give us?

3. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?

4. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?

5. Under what two general classes do relations come?

(see the answer key)

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