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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 are the two types of reason?
(a) Respect and contempt.
(b) Envy and respect.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Demonstrative and probability.

2. What is benevolence?
(a) The desire to make someone you love happy.
(b) The willingness to help people you don't know.
(c) The pleasure one gets from seeing pain.
(d) Suppressed anger at someone you love.

3. What does Hume want to know about individuals in this section?
(a) How they learn to socialize.
(b) How they make moral distinctions.
(c) Why they feel hate.
(d) How they fall in love.

4. What does Hume say are the only two things we have in our minds?
(a) Ideas and impressions.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Vice and virtues.
(d) Judgements and non-judgements.

5. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?
(a) Malice.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Envy.
(d) Benevolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can one not derive an ought from?

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

3. Which of the following does Hume state is an artificial virtue?

4. What is the title of Book Three, Part Two?

5. What is the title of Book Two, Part Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point is Hume making by using the murder example?

2. Why does Hume say justice must be moral?

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

4. Why does Hume think passions rather than reason determine the will?

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

6. How does Hume define love and hatred?

7. How would Hume's system deal with murder?

8. How does Hume define will?

9. How does Hume divide direct passions?

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

(see the answer keys)

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