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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?
(a) Senses.
(b) Objects.
(c) Reason.
(d) Imagination.

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

3. What does Book Two cover regarding human nature?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Sympathies.
(c) Passions.
(d) Understanding.

4. What does Hume says causation allows us to do which is vital for our survival?
(a) Make predictions.
(b) Fall in love.
(c) Recall past events.
(d) Believe in a deity.

5. To whom does Hume say he should leave the study to productive passions?
(a) School teachers.
(b) Theologists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Scholars.

6. What does Hume say helps us produce belief?
(a) The external world.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) The internal world.
(d) Imagination.

7. What does Hume say is the only thing that can make uncaused choices?
(a) Free will.
(b) There is nothing.
(c) The soul.
(d) Mass society.

8. In what does Hume say he finds it difficult to put faith?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) The external world.
(c) Imagination.
(d) The internal world.

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

10. What kind of soul does Hume believe does not exist?
(a) The material soul.
(b) The frank soul.
(c) The sincere soul.
(d) The immaterial soul.

11. Which of the following is another term used for passions?
(a) Impressions of reflections.
(b) Ideas of resemblance.
(c) Images of emotion.
(d) Forming mental images.

12. From where does Hume say sensation arises?
(a) The stomach.
(b) The spirit.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The soul.

13. What system does Hume say is absurd?
(a) The English grammar system.
(b) The German grammar system.
(c) The chemistry point system.
(d) The mathematical points system.

14. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?
(a) The map.
(b) The fork.
(c) The spoon.
(d) The knife.

15. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?
(a) A lead spot.
(b) An ink spot.
(c) A black spot.
(d) A dirt spot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hume define responsive passions?

2. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?

3. Why does Hume see pride as an agreeable impression?

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

5. What object does Hume say is sufficient enough to give him the idea of extension?

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