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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's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?
(a) Reflecting on numbers.
(b) Seeing points of view.
(c) Constructing complex modes.
(d) Constructing simple modes.

2. How does Locke define truth?
(a) The physical experience of certainty.
(b) Intuitive understanding.
(c) The agreement of signs with one another.
(d) Consensus.

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.
(b) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.
(c) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.
(d) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(b) It must be learned.
(c) It must be established anew each generation.
(d) It must be doubted.

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(b) Envy is bound to the passions.
(c) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(d) Language is never more than self-referential.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worry is Locke sensitive to, in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

2. What does Locke describe the mind as?

3. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

4. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

5. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?

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