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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hume says impressions are divided into what?
(a) Sensation and reflexion.
(b) Ideas and words.
(c) Pride and passions.
(d) Love and hate.

2. What does Hume say is a disagreeable impression?
(a) Pride.
(b) Humility.
(c) Death.
(d) Hate.

3. What idea does Hume bring in to distinguish between knowledge and probability?
(a) Justice.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Morals.
(d) Philosophical relations.

4. What does Hume say will is instead of a power?
(a) A passion.
(b) A faculty.
(c) A euphoric state.
(d) A religious state.

5. Which of the following best describes Hume's fork principle?
(a) A truth has four parts.
(b) A truth can be split into two.
(c) We can either live in right or wrong.
(d) Life has two roads.

6. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?
(a) Puts them in any order it pleases.
(b) Disposes of them.
(c) Introduces complex ideas.
(d) Adds color and light.

7. Which of the following best fits Hume's idea of perception?
(a) What we see is our reality.
(b) All objects are mere perceptions and have no reality.
(c) We all shape our own reality.
(d) No objects are real if we can see them.

8. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Feeliing.
(b) Reality.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Love.

9. Which French philosopher does Hume reference in this section?
(a) Malezieu.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Camus.

10. What does Hume say is the only thing that can cause us to act?
(a) Reason.
(b) Identity.
(c) Experience.
(d) Passions.

11. What is the title of Book one, Part Three?
(a) Of Knowledge and Probability.
(b) Morals of the World.
(c) Injustice Versus Justice.
(d) Of Space and Time.

12. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?
(a) A peach.
(b) A banana.
(c) An orange.
(d) A pineapple.

13. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?
(a) Something we have been told as children and have grown to believe.
(b) Something that is trivially true.
(c) Something that comes from the universal truth.
(d) Something that is formed from our own ideas.

14. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is a God.
(b) That there is an internal world.
(c) That there is life beyond death.
(d) That there is an external world.

15. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?
(a) Lopsided theories.
(b) Misguided theories.
(c) A metaphysical position.
(d) Counterintuitive positions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?

2. What is the name of the system used to prove the existence of God?

3. Which idea comes in for extended analysis in Book One, Part Three?

4. What kind of soul does Hume believe does not exist?

5. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?

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