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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what does Hume say all human action is determined?
(a) Perception.
(b) Impressions.
(c) Morals.
(d) Love.

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

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

4. What direct passions do natural instincts produce?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Pleasure and pain.
(c) Fear and hate.
(d) Desire and joy.

5. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?
(a) They understand us.
(b) It is easier to talk to them.
(c) They don't judge us.
(d) They resemble us.

6. On what does Hume consider moral distinctions are based in this section?
(a) Love or hate.
(b) Justice or injustice.
(c) Nature or nurture.
(d) Morality or immorality.

7. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected with natural instincts.
(b) When they are connected with vice.
(c) When they are connected to artificial virtue.
(d) When they are connected with death.

8. Which virtues does Hume say are instinctual?
(a) External virtues.
(b) Artificial virtues.
(c) Natural virtues.
(d) Internal virtues.

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

10. Which of the following is an artificial virtue?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Hating.
(d) Promise-keeping.

11. What is the title of Book Three, Part Three?
(a) Of Knowledge and Forgetting.
(b) Of Sympathy.
(c) Of the Other Virtues and Vices.
(d) Of Love and Hate.

12. What is the title of Book Two, Part Three?
(a) Of the Will and Direct Passions.
(b) Of Love and Hate.
(c) Of Free Will and Indirect Passion.
(d) Of Justice and Morality.

13. What is Hume's argument against religion's view on free will?
(a) One can't understand oneself with free will.
(b) One can't be a solid member of society with free will.
(c) One can't find happiness with free will.
(d) One can't be moral with free will.

14. Hume says religious people focus on what?
(a) Judgement.
(b) Free will.
(c) Virtues.
(d) Love and hate.

15. What can one not derive an ought from?
(a) An and.
(b) A not.
(c) A what.
(d) An is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hume think humans, unlike other animals, cannot satisfy their needs from nature alone?

2. According to what does Hume say we judge individuals ?

3. Why do individuals want to fake the practice of virtue?

4. What does Hume call romantic love?

5. What does religion argue about free will?

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