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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 idea does Hume claim is intelligible?
(a) Immateriality.
(b) Insanity
(c) Perception.
(d) Love.

2. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?
(a) Human passion.
(b) Religion.
(c) Society.
(d) Human senses.

3. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?
(a) Introduces complex ideas.
(b) Puts them in any order it pleases.
(c) Adds color and light.
(d) Disposes of them.

4. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?
(a) True statements in mathematics.
(b) Truth in science.
(c) Religious concepts.
(d) English grammar rules.

5. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?
(a) Religion does not allow for natural thought.
(b) Religion is too strict.
(c) There are too many different Gods.
(d) People have no direct impression of Him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hume says impressions are divided into what?

3. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

4. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?

5. How does Hume define demonstration?

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