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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hume say is limited?
(a) Social morals.
(b) The capacity to feel love.
(c) Family life.
(d) The capacity of the mind.

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

3. From where does Hume say facts come?
(a) History.
(b) The government.
(c) The imagination.
(d) Experience.

4. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?
(a) Matters of love.
(b) Matters of religion.
(c) Matters of fact.
(d) Matters of science.

5. What is the title of Book Two, Part Two?
(a) Of Sympathy.
(b) Of Laughter.
(c) Of Love and Hatred.
(d) Of Passioned Senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is the only thing he finds when he looks inside himself?

2. Under what two general classes do relations come?

3. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?

4. How does Hume define passions?

5. What kind of image does Hume say will be presented if one wheels around a burning coal with rapidity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hume claim the mind perceives space?

2. What are Dr. Clarke's views on cause and effect?

3. Why does Hume reject the idea of an immaterial soul?

4. How does Hume claim the mind perceives time?

5. In which two senses is the word relation commonly used?

6. In terms of philosophy what is empiricism?

7. Why does Hume think humility and pride are similar?

8. Why does Hume think that memory is stronger than imagination?

9. Why does Hume think we love the rich and admire only people we know?

10. What does Hume think are the two ways objects can exist?

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