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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. Which of the following does Hume list as a natural virtue?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Humor.
(d) Honesty.

2. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?
(a) Malice.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Benevolence.
(d) Envy.

3. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?
(a) Morals about causes.
(b) Judgements about causes.
(c) Sympathy about causes.
(d) Beliefs about causes.

4. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?
(a) Reaction and action.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Imagination and mind.
(d) Sense and reason.

5. Which idea comes in for extended analysis in Book One, Part Three?
(a) Morals.
(b) Passions.
(c) Causation.
(d) Love and hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Hume bring in to distinguish between knowledge and probability?

2. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?

3. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?

4. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?

5. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?

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