A Treatise of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Easy

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A Treatise of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Hume say virtue is tied?
(a) Ability.
(b) Inability.
(c) Agreeableness.
(d) Disagreeableness.

2. What does Hume want to know about individuals in this section?
(a) How they make moral distinctions.
(b) How they learn to socialize.
(c) Why they feel hate.
(d) How they fall in love.

3. Into what two types does Hume divide direct passions?
(a) Those which are comfortable and those which are uncomfortable.
(b) Those which respond to pain and those which are natural instincts.
(c) Those which respond to hate and those which respond to love.
(d) Those which we understand and thosewhich we misunderstand.

4. What passion does Hume say pity is like?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Envy.

5. What does religion argue about free will?
(a) One can't believe in God without free will.
(b) One can't go to heaven without free will.
(c) One can't be moral without free will.
(d) One can't fall in love without free will.

6. What do moral judgments intrinsically motivate?
(a) Action.
(b) Enthusiasm.
(c) Artifical pain.
(d) Vice.

7. What is Hume's general goal in his treatise?
(a) To explain morality.
(b) To explain the similarities between love and hate.
(c) To explain the origins of vice and virtue.
(d) To explain the origins of ideas and impressions.

8. Which of the following does Hume state is an artificial virtue?
(a) Order.
(b) Disorder.
(c) Morality.
(d) Justice.

9. How does Hume define respect?
(a) Feelings of love and humility towards another person.
(b) Loving someone you want to be and perhaps could be.
(c) Listening to someone you don't like.
(d) Feelings of deep envy towards another person.

10. Which of the following does Hume suggest is the true origin of morals?
(a) Social order.
(b) A general viewpoint.
(c) Justice.
(d) A subjective viewpoint.

11. Which of the following does Hume list as a natural virtue?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Humor.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Honesty.

12. Which of the following does Hume say can't cause the will to act?
(a) Love.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Reason.
(d) Ideas.

13. What does Hume say are the only two things we have in our minds?
(a) Judgements and non-judgements.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Ideas and impressions.
(d) Vice and virtues.

14. What is the general title of Book Three?
(a) Of Passions.
(b) Of Nature.
(c) Of Humans.
(d) Of Morals.

15. What does Hume say none of his three motives of human nature are sufficient enough to produce?
(a) Morals.
(b) Justice.
(c) Disorder.
(d) Order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say are the two types of reason?

2. What is the title of Book Three, Part One?

3. What best describes Hume's conception of the will?

4. How does Hume define anger?

5. What kind of point of view does sympathy allow us to take?

(see the answer keys)

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