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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 determines whether action is good or bad?
(a) Actions.
(b) Motives.
(c) Society.
(d) Morality.

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

3. What best describes Hume's conception of the will?
(a) An intrinsic force.
(b) An extrinsic force.
(c) A feeling.
(d) A power.

4. What was required to regulate society once it had evolved into a certain order?
(a) Morality.
(b) Passion.
(c) Justice.
(d) Religion.

5. Which of the following is a disposition involved with the passions?
(a) Attendant emotion.
(b) Unattendant emotion.
(c) Deep emotion.
(d) Sick emotion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hume say we need to stop men from fighting?

3. From where does Hume say we derive our feelings of love and hate?

4. What direct passions do natural instincts produce?

5. What kind of point of view does sympathy allow us to take?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hume divide direct passions?

2. Summarize Book Two.

3. Why does Hume want to answer the question, "Which impression or ideas help us to divide virtue from vice?"

4. Summarize Part Three of Book Two.

5. Why does Hume claim that actions are not the result of passions?

6. Why does Hume say common loyalty is so important?

7. How has society developed a sense of justice?

8. What does Part Three of Book Three say about natural virtues?

9. How does Hume define artificial virtues?

10. How does Hume use murder as an example of morals?

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