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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?
(a) They form the instincts.
(b) They must be un-learned.
(c) They do not constitute innate knowledge.
(d) They are the basis of innate knowledge.

2. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They are the inertia of things.
(b) They are essential to the things themselves.
(c) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.
(d) They have no internal direction.

3. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(b) He says that qualities can change in memory.
(c) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(d) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.

4. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Abandon them.
(b) Renew them.
(c) Test them.
(d) Challenge them.

5. What is Locke's argument for the existence of God?
(a) His experience of innate morality.
(b) There must have been someone from whom all things came.
(c) Miracles.
(d) The existence of the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define truth?

2. How does Locke define judgment?

3. Which school of philosophy divided essences into real and nominal?

4. What does Locke say faith requires?

5. How has God formed man, according to Locke?

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