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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. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected with death.
(b) When they are connected with vice.
(c) When they are connected with natural instincts.
(d) When they are connected to artificial virtue.

2. By what does Hume say all human action is determined?
(a) Love.
(b) Perception.
(c) Morals.
(d) Impressions.

3. What is the general title of Book Three?
(a) Of Morals.
(b) Of Nature.
(c) Of Passions.
(d) Of Humans.

4. Who does Hume say must be bound to family in order for it to work?
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Servants.
(d) Men.

5. What kind of people does Hume say we admire?
(a) The rich and powerful.
(b) People with high morals.
(c) People who understand the world.
(d) Popular people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hume define productive passions?

2. Why does Hume say he finds it so hard to correct his former opinions?

3. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?

4. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?

5. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?

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