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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 limited?
(a) The capacity to feel love.
(b) The capacity of the mind.
(c) Social morals.
(d) Family life.

2. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?
(a) Passions and reason.
(b) Vice and virtue.
(c) Pride and prejudice.
(d) Definitions and observations.

3. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They are a solid fact.
(b) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.
(c) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.
(d) They can only be divided into four.

4. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Internally and externally.
(b) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.
(c) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(d) Free of life and imprisoned by life.

5. What is the title of Book one, Part Three?
(a) Of Space and Time.
(b) Of Knowledge and Probability.
(c) Injustice Versus Justice.
(d) Morals of the World.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?

3. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?

4. Which of the following best fits Hume's idea of perception?

5. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

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