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

2. Which idea comes in for extended analysis in Book One, Part Three?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Morals.
(c) Causation.
(d) Passions.

3. What does Book Two cover regarding human nature?
(a) Passions.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Sympathies.
(d) Understanding.

4. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Humility.
(b) Hate.
(c) Pride.
(d) Death.

5. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) In the middle of a seizure.
(b) Dead.
(c) In a coma.
(d) Asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?

2. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?

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

4. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?

5. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?

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