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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 is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The map.
(b) The fork.
(c) The knife.
(d) The microscope.

2. Which of the following is a natural ability?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Humor.
(c) Industry.
(d) Sleep.

3. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.
(b) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(c) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(d) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.

4. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Pride.
(c) Pain.
(d) Hot and cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?

3. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?

4. What is the title of Book Two, Part Two?

5. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

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