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

2. On what basis, in Locke's opinion, do we know that we exist?
(a) Deduction.
(b) Individuation of sense experience.
(c) Moral experience.
(d) Metaphysical knowledge.

3. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Feelings.

4. How does Locke define judgment?
(a) The ability to agree to ideas without certain knowledge.
(b) The ability to discern truth from lies.
(c) The ability to reduce an argument to its core propositions.
(d) The ability to find truth in evidence.

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Experience.
(c) God.
(d) Senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?

2. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

3. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?

4. What does Locke say words refer to?

5. What does Locke say perception creates?

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