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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 truth is a property of?
(a) God.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Facts.
(d) Propositions.

2. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) Divine will.
(b) The mathematics of probabilities.
(c) Causal necessity in nature.
(d) The inexorable shape of history.

3. What qualities does Locke say things have?
(a) Primary and secondary.
(b) Practical and symbolic.
(c) Essential and contingent.
(d) Simple and complex.

4. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.
(b) How frequently it occurs.
(c) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.
(d) That it has the ability to replicate itself.

5. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.
(b) The idea that God is infallible.
(c) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
(d) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

3. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?

4. How does Locke describe experience?

5. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

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