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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. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
(a) Pain.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Pride.
(d) Hot and cold.

2. Hume thinks it is pointless to wonder about the existence of what?
(a) The perfect man or woman for ourselves.
(b) The external world and external objects.
(c) The nuclear family.
(d) The internal world.

3. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Feeliing.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Love.
(d) Reality.

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

5. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of love.
(b) Matters of religion.
(c) Matters of fact.
(d) Matters of science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

2. Hume says every simple impression is attended with what?

3. What is the title of Book Two, Part Two?

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

5. How does Hume define demonstration?

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