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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 1, Of Pride and Humility.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hume says impressions are divided into what?
(a) Ideas and words.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Pride and passions.
(d) Sensation and reflexion.

2. How does Hume define responsive passions?
(a) As those that react to the external world.
(b) As those that react to productive passions.
(c) As those that react to sympathy.
(d) As those that react to feelings of love.

3. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.
(b) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(c) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(d) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.

4. Which of the following best defines empiricism?
(a) Our morals are not truly our own thoughts.
(b) Our knowledge of the world comes enitirely through experience.
(c) Our knowledge of the world comes entirely from our parents.
(d) The government should have control over our lives.

5. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?
(a) Whatever your imagination allows.
(b) A burning pole.
(c) A circle of fire.
(d) A reddish orange blur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is limited?

2. What is the title of Book one, Part Three?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing senses give us?

4. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?

5. Which of the following passions does Hume call a bodily feeling?

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