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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix, An Abstract of a Book Lately Published, Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.
(b) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.
(c) It is not divisable.
(d) We have no sensory impression of it.

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

3. What does Hume claim is a fictitious denomination?
(a) The idea of morals.
(b) The idea of unity.
(c) The idea of justice.
(d) The idea of love.

4. What kind of passion does Hume say is a mistake to confuse as reason?
(a) Calm passions.
(b) Violent passions.
(c) Extreme passions.
(d) Fun passions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?

2. What does Hume say conceals the rest of the person's body that he sees?

3. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?

4. From where does Hume say we derive our feelings of love and hate?

5. What does Hume say would have put him closer to the truth?

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