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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. Why does Hume say that neither ideas nor impressions are infinitely divisible?
(a) They can only be divided into four.
(b) They are a solid fact.
(c) It takes away from the fact that they are complex.
(d) We would eventually arrive at a number too difficult to perceive.

2. What does Hume say would happen if you denied the existence of the 19th man of a group of twenty?
(a) The twentieth man would not exist.
(b) None of the men in the group would exist.
(c) People would fall in love.
(d) There would be much immoral behavior.

3. What does Hume say impression does not tell us?
(a) There isn't an internal world.
(b) Nothing exists.
(c) There isn't an external world.
(d) We are alive only in our minds.

4. Which of the following is the best description of the microscope inquiry?
(a) To understand something we must take a step back and look at it.
(b) To understand something we must get to its core.
(c) To understand something we must break it down into smaller parts.
(d) To understand something we must make it bigger.

5. Which of the following best describes Hume's idea of a definition?
(a) Something that is formed from our own ideas.
(b) Something we have been told as children and have grown to believe.
(c) Something that comes from the universal truth.
(d) Something that is trivially true.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book Two, Part Two?

2. Hume say the human mind resolves itself into what distinct kinds ?

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

4. What does Hume say is the only thing senses give us?

5. What does imagination do with simple ideas once it has separated them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Hume's fork principle?

3. What is the razor principle?

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

5. What is contiguity within the context of cause and effect?

6. What argument did Malezieu propose in terms of space and time?

7. What is the microscope principle?

8. What is the conventional view of cause and effect?

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

10. Why does Hume think it is pointless to wonder about the external world?

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