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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 do individuals want to fake the practice of virtue?
(a) They want to be accepted by God.
(b) They want to make friends.
(c) They want to fit into society.
(d) The want moral approval.

2. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The spoon.
(b) The fork.
(c) The map.
(d) The knife.

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

4. What does Hume say happens to justice over time?
(a) It is needed less and less.
(b) It gets more complex.
(c) It gets less just.
(d) It gets simpler.

5. According to Hume, which of the following is a motive built into human nature?
(a) General sympathy.
(b) General benevolence.
(c) Self-interest.
(d) Personability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume says the will is an impression of what?

2. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

3. What approach does Hume bring to morality?

4. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?

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

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