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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) Justice.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Morals.

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

3. What does Hume say could be the condition of a man who is insensitive to time?
(a) In the middle of a seizure.
(b) Asleep.
(c) In a coma.
(d) Dead.

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

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

6. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?
(a) To understand something we must make it bigger.
(b) To understand something we must break it down into smaller parts.
(c) To understand something we must get to its core.
(d) To understand something we must take a step back and look at it.

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

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

9. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?
(a) Whatever your imagination allows.
(b) A reddish orange blur.
(c) A circle of fire.
(d) A burning pole.

10. Under what two general classes do relations come?
(a) Mental and imagination.
(b) Razor and fork.
(c) Resemblance and contrariety.
(d) Mirror and microscope.

11. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) People would fall in love.
(b) The twentieth man would not exist.
(c) None of the men in the group would exist.
(d) There would be much immoral behavior.

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

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

14. Hume says complex ideas are divided into what?
(a) Relations, modes and substances.
(b) Time, place and distance.
(c) Passions, prides and prejudices.
(d) Solar, molar and code.

15. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Internally and externally.
(b) Free of life and imprisoned by life.
(c) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(d) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume says causation allows us to do which is vital for our survival?

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

3. What does Hume say will is instead of a power?

4. Hume says impressions are divided into what?

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

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