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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3, Of the Other Virtues and Vices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What virtue allows humans to be governed?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Politeness.

2. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Envy.
(c) Benevolence.
(d) Malice.

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

4. What does Hume say he will use to discuss passion instead of physiology?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Experience.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Psychology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?

2. Which of the following does Hume list as a natural virtue?

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

4. What kind of point of view does sympathy allow us to take?

5. What approach does Hume bring to morality?

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