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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following passions does Hume call an emotion?
(a) Pain.
(b) Pride.
(c) Hot and cold.
(d) Pleasure.

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

4. From where does a human's substantive knowledge come?
(a) Religion.
(b) Human senses.
(c) Human passion.
(d) Society.

5. On which of the following systems does Part Four mainly concentrate?
(a) Innate ideas.
(b) Skepticism.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Empiricism.

6. Which of the following can cause either pride or humility?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Power.
(c) Death.
(d) Sympathy.

7. What kind of philosophers does Hume claim are confused themselves?
(a) Ones who think but don't do.
(b) Ones who think they have impressions about themselves.
(c) Ones who don't look beyond themselves.
(d) Ones who live and work on their own.

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

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 formed from our own ideas.
(c) Something that is trivially true.
(d) Something we have been told as children and have grown to believe.

10. How does Hume define demonstration?
(a) Connecting the relation.
(b) Hiding the relation.
(c) Identifying the relation.
(d) Deriving the relation.

11. What two things does Hume say can't produce beliefs?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Reaction and action.
(c) Sense and reason.
(d) Imagination and mind.

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

13. 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) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(d) Internally and externally.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Hume say sensation arises?

2. Why does Hume see pride as an agreeable impression?

3. What object does Hume say is sufficient enough to give him the idea of extension?

4. Hume tells the reader to fix his eye on what kind of spot?

5. What does Hume identify as the second philosophical relation?

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