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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what does Hume say cousins are connected?
(a) Fate.
(b) Causation.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Family.

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

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

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

5. How does Hume define passions?
(a) Slow movements in your external world.
(b) Complex ideas of love and hate.
(c) Simple ideas evolving across time into simpler ones.
(d) Immediate sensations of your internal states.

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

7. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Feeling and thinking.
(b) Women and men.
(c) Images and words.
(d) Impressions and ideas.

8. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Fear.
(d) Perception.

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

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

11. With what does the first truth in Hume's fork principle deal?
(a) Truth in science.
(b) English grammar rules.
(c) True statements in mathematics.
(d) Religious concepts.

12. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?
(a) Religion is too strict.
(b) Religion does not allow for natural thought.
(c) People have no direct impression of Him.
(d) There are too many different Gods.

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

14. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?
(a) Identity.
(b) Resemblance.
(c) Quality.
(d) Space and time.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?

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

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

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

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