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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can pride and humility not be reduced to other passions?
(a) They are too complex to be be separated.
(b) They are fundamental features of the human mind.
(c) They are solid features of our lives.
(d) They are a simple impression.

2. To what does distinguishing between perception and reality often lead?
(a) Counterintuitive positions.
(b) Lopsided theories.
(c) Misguided theories.
(d) A metaphysical position.

3. How does Hume define productive passions?
(a) As those that produce images.
(b) As those that produce pleasure and pain.
(c) As those that produce mental stimulants.
(d) As those that produce feelings of numbness.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Hume say impressions can't tell us?
(a) That there is an internal world.
(b) That there is an external world.
(c) That there is a God.
(d) That there is life beyond death.

10. What does Hume say is stronger than imagination?
(a) Reality.
(b) Memory.
(c) Passions.
(d) Love.

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

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

13. What idea does Hume claim is intelligible?
(a) Immateriality.
(b) Love.
(c) Perception.
(d) Insanity

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?

2. What does Hume say helps us produce belief?

3. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?

4. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

5. How does Hume define demonstration?

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