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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best fits Hume's idea of perception?
(a) We all shape our own reality.
(b) What we see is our reality.
(c) All objects are mere perceptions and have no reality.
(d) No objects are real if we can see them.

2. What kind of soul does Hume believe does not exist?
(a) The immaterial soul.
(b) The frank soul.
(c) The sincere soul.
(d) The material soul.

3. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?
(a) Self-interest.
(b) A sense of justice.
(c) Family values.
(d) Moral sentiment.

4. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?
(a) People with mental illness.
(b) Morally corrupt people.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Morally primitive people.

5. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) The twentieth man would not exist.
(b) None of the men in the group would exist.
(c) There would be much immoral behavior.
(d) People would fall in love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hume say we need to stop men from fighting?

3. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?

4. Why can pride and humility not be reduced to other passions?

5. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?

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