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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. What is benevolence?
(a) The willingness to help people you don't know.
(b) The pleasure one gets from seeing pain.
(c) Suppressed anger at someone you love.
(d) The desire to make someone you love happy.

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The robin.
(b) The spoon.
(c) The knife.
(d) The microscope.

3. Which French philosopher does Hume reference in this section?
(a) Rimbaud.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Camus.
(d) Malezieu.

4. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Reason.
(b) The imagination.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Abstract concepts.

5. How does Hume define demonstration?
(a) Identifying the relation.
(b) Hiding the relation.
(c) Deriving the relation.
(d) Connecting the relation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can cause either pride or humility?

2. How does Hume define anger?

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

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

5. What does religion argue about free will?

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