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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book Three, Part Two?
(a) Of Love and Hate.
(b) Of Justice and Injustice.
(c) Of Morals and Immorals.
(d) Of Religion and Atheism.

2. What kind of point of view does sympathy allow us to take?
(a) A personable point of view.
(b) An individual point of view.
(c) A subjective point of view.
(d) A general point of view.

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

4. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?
(a) Criminals.
(b) People with mental illness.
(c) Morally corrupt people.
(d) Morally primitive people.

5. Which virtues does Hume say are culturally evolved?
(a) Judgemental virtues.
(b) Artificial virtues.
(c) Natural virtues.
(d) Vulgar virtues.

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

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

8. According to Hume, which of the following is a motive built into human nature?
(a) General sympathy.
(b) General benevolence.
(c) Personability.
(d) Self-interest.

9. How does Hume define anger?
(a) The desire to be alone.
(b) The need to scream and shout at the nearest object.
(c) The desire to be self-destructive.
(d) The desire to cause pain to someone you hate.

10. On what two impressions does Hume say moral distinctions are based?
(a) Reflection and approbation.
(b) Frolics and deity.
(c) Resemblance and modesty.
(d) Laughter and pain.

11. Of what does virtue give us the impression?
(a) Pain.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Pleasure.

12. Why does Hume say we admire the rich and the powerful?
(a) They are more confident.
(b) They possess better judgement.
(c) They use their natural instincts.
(d) They possess what we affirm as valuable.

13. Why does Hume think humans, unlike other animals, cannot satisfy their needs from nature alone?
(a) They have an active mind and need to discover new things.
(b) They can't live in a primitive state.
(c) They have to live in an isolated space.
(d) They have more desires than they have means to meet them.

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

15. What does Hume say we need to stop men from fighting?
(a) Women.
(b) Social units.
(c) Sport.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Hume say virtue is tied?

2. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?

3. What does Hume say societies need to defend themselves against attack?

4. When does one feel the impression of volition?

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

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