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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) Constructing complex modes.
(b) Seeing points of view.
(c) Constructing simple modes.
(d) Reflecting on numbers.

2. What defines demonstrative knowledge, in Locke's account?
(a) It is self-evident.
(b) It can be proved with faith.
(c) It requires explicit proof.
(d) It uses non-scientific methods of proof.

3. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(b) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(c) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(d) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.

4. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?
(a) He proposed different ways to tempt fate.
(b) He advocated experiments in free will.
(c) He demonstrated the inevitability of free choice.
(d) He proposed a third position.

5. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?
(a) By meditating on the things.
(b) By breaking things into their constituent parts.
(c) By analyzing our ideas of those things.
(d) By performing experiments on the things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the role of reasons in faith?

2. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

3. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

4. How does Locke describe his theory of knowledge?

5. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

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