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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 3, Of Knowledge and Probability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?
(a) Love.
(b) Reality.
(c) Memory.
(d) Passions.

2. From where does Hume say sensation arises?
(a) The stomach.
(b) The soul.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The spirit.

3. What is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The microscope.
(b) The knife.
(c) The map.
(d) The fork.

4. How does Hume define intuition?
(a) Seeing the relation.
(b) Seeing the future.
(c) Recalling past events.
(d) Imagining what will happen.

5. Which of the following is an abstract concept?
(a) A chair.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Man.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?

2. By what does Hume say cousins are connected?

3. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?

4. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?

5. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?

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