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

2. What does Hume think a proper understanding of the will help us to understand?
(a) Free will.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) The passions.

3. Which of the following does Hume list as a natural virtue?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Humor.

4. Who does Hume say must be bound to family in order for it to work?
(a) Women.
(b) Servants.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

5. What does religion argue about free will?
(a) One can't be moral without free will.
(b) One can't believe in God without free will.
(c) One can't fall in love without free will.
(d) One can't go to heaven without free will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hume's general goal in his treatise?

2. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?

3. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?

4. What is the general title of Book Three?

5. Which virtues does Hume say are culturally evolved?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hume define natural virtues?

3. Why does Hume state that morality is not based on reason?

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

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

6. How does Hume define will?

7. Why does Hume say justice must be moral?

8. Summarize Book Two.

9. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?

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

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