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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) Whether ideas are moral.
(b) What the mind is.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) Whether ideas are innate.

3. What does reflection create ideas out of?
(a) History.
(b) Language itself.
(c) Sensation.
(d) The mind's own operations.

4. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) The next general word.
(b) A memory of pleasure or pain.
(c) An image.
(d) A prophecy.

5. How does Locke define perception?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) Syncretic.
(d) Passive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

2. What form do propositions typically have, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?

4. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

5. What does Locke's illustration show?

(see the answer key)

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