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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 2, Of The Ideas of Space and Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Under what two general classes do relations come?
(a) Mirror and microscope.
(b) Resemblance and contrariety.
(c) Razor and fork.
(d) Mental and imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is limited?

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

3. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

4. Hume says impressions are divided into what?

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

(see the answer key)

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