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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?
(a) Matters of principle.
(b) Morals.
(c) Judgements.
(d) Matters of fact.

7. What does Hume believe humans generate instead of observing causes?
(a) Beliefs about causes.
(b) Morals about causes.
(c) Judgements about causes.
(d) Sympathy about causes.

8. What object does Hume say is sufficient enough to give him the idea of extension?
(a) The cabinet.
(b) The table.
(c) The bath.
(d) The chair.

9. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of love.
(b) Matters of science.
(c) Matters of religion.
(d) Matters of fact.

10. Hume says every simple impression is attended with what?
(a) A correspondent sentence.
(b) A correspondent idea.
(c) A correspondent title.
(d) A correspondent word.

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

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

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

14. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Abstract concepts.
(b) Reason.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) The imagination.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following can cause either pride or humility?

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

5. What does Hume say is the only thing that can make uncaused choices?

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