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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 impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is life beyond death.
(b) That there is a God.
(c) That there is an internal world.
(d) That there is an external world.

2. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?
(a) An orange.
(b) A pineapple.
(c) A banana.
(d) A peach.

3. What does Hume say takes precedence over ideas?
(a) Passions.
(b) Reason.
(c) Words.
(d) Impressions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?

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

3. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?

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

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

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