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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 we can direct onto others?
(a) Love.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Hate.
(d) Passions.

2. Which of the following best defines empiricism?
(a) The government should have control over our lives.
(b) Our knowledge of the world comes entirely from our parents.
(c) Our morals are not truly our own thoughts.
(d) Our knowledge of the world comes enitirely through experience.

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

4. How does Hume define respect?
(a) Feelings of love and humility towards another person.
(b) Feelings of deep envy towards another person.
(c) Loving someone you want to be and perhaps could be.
(d) Listening to someone you don't like.

5. What does Hume say is the chief exercise of the memory?
(a) To find the essence of an idea.
(b) To put simple ideas in order.
(c) To ignite the imagination.
(d) To confound critics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hume's second tool of philosophical inquiry?

2. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?

3. Hume says religious people focus on what?

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

5. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?

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