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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. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Feeliing.
(c) Love.
(d) Reality.

2. What two cities does Hume use in his example of why it is difficult to form accurate impressions?
(a) London and Edinborough.
(b) Moscow and Prague.
(c) New Jerusalem and Paris.
(d) Glasgow and Liverpool.

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

4. What are the two ways in which Hume says one can exist?
(a) Parentally influenced and self-influenced.
(b) Free of life and imprisoned by life.
(c) Independently of the mind and dependently of the world.
(d) Internally and externally.

5. What does Hume say he will use to discuss passion instead of physiology?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Experience.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fruit does Hume use as an example to show our inability to form a just idea without testing it first?

2. Which of the following is unreliable in terms of perceiving things?

3. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?

4. Which of the following best defines empiricism?

5. From where does Hume say facts come?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Of what does Hume claim a substance is made up?

3. Why is resemblance so important in terms of relation?

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

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

6. Why can only our imagination produce belief in external objects?

7. What is the difference between responsive and productive passions?

8. How does Hume define passions?

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

10. How does Hume divide the different kinds of philosophical relations?

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