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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) People with high morals.
(b) The rich and powerful.
(c) People who understand the world.
(d) Popular people.

2. What does Hume say determines the will?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Reason.
(c) Passions.
(d) Love.

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

4. Of what does virtue give us the impression?
(a) Hate.
(b) Pain.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Love.

5. On what two impressions does Hume say moral distinctions are based?
(a) Resemblance and modesty.
(b) Reflection and approbation.
(c) Frolics and deity.
(d) Laughter and pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

2. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?

3. What does Hume say societies need to defend themselves against attack?

4. What virtue allows humans to be governed?

5. What does Hume think a proper understanding of the will help us to understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Book Two.

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

3. How does Hume define natural virtues?

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

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

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

7. Why does Hume say justice must be moral?

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

9. How has society developed a sense of justice?

10. Summarize Part Three of Book Two.

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