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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. What does Hume say determines the will?
(a) Love.
(b) Passions.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Reason.

2. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.
(b) Internally and externally.
(c) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(d) Free of life and imprisoned by life.

3. Which of the following can cause either pride or humility?
(a) Power.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Death.

4. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?
(a) They understand us.
(b) They resemble us.
(c) They don't judge us.
(d) It is easier to talk to them.

5. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?
(a) They cannot explain people.
(b) The cannot explain society.
(c) They cannot explain life.
(d) They cannot explain obligation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hume define passions?

2. What is Hume's argument against religion's view on free will?

3. What was required to regulate society once it had evolved into a certain order?

4. What does Hume say is limited?

5. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

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