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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?
(a) Pride and prejudice.
(b) Passions and reason.
(c) Definitions and observations.
(d) Vice and virtue.

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

3. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.
(b) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.
(c) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(d) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.

4. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They can only be divided into four.
(b) They are a solid fact.
(c) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.
(d) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.

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

6. What is the title of Book Two, Part One?
(a) Of Moral Judgement.
(b) Of Passions.
(c) Of Pride and Humility.
(d) Of Sympathy.

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

8. 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) There would be much immoral behavior.
(c) None of the men in the group would exist.
(d) The twentieth man would not exist.

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

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

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

12. Which of the following best defines empiricism?
(a) Our knowledge of the world comes enitirely through experience.
(b) Our knowledge of the world comes entirely from our parents.
(c) The government should have control over our lives.
(d) Our morals are not truly our own thoughts.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What system does Hume say is absurd?

3. Under what two general classes do relations come?

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

5. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?

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