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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 kind of people does Hume say we admire?
(a) The rich and powerful.
(b) People who understand the world.
(c) Popular people.
(d) People with high morals.

2. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected with vice.
(b) When they are connected to artificial virtue.
(c) When they are connected with death.
(d) When they are connected with natural instincts.

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

4. What virtue does Hume claim is needed to maintain the family unit?
(a) Love.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Chastity.

5. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?
(a) Family values.
(b) Self-interest.
(c) Moral sentiment.
(d) A sense of justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a group of contrary?

2. Of what does vice give us the impression?

3. What does religion argue about free will?

4. What does Hume say determines the will?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hume mean when he says one cannot derive an ought from an is?

2. How does Hume divide direct passions?

3. How does Hume define natural virtues?

4. Why does Hume think reason is the slave of the passions?

5. How has society developed a sense of justice?

6. Why does Hume say justice must be moral?

7. Summarize Book Two.

8. When do moral pleasures and pains occur?

9. Why does Hume think there is no free will in religion?

10. What is Hume's argument against those who defend free will?

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