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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 is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Faith.
(c) Morality.
(d) Knowledge.

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

3. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?
(a) The idea of human superiority.
(b) The idea of God.
(c) The idea of nature.
(d) The idea of animal.

4. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Primary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities will not change.

5. How does Locke define simple ideas?
(a) They cannot be broken down into parts.
(b) They can only be seen in behavior.
(c) They cannot be built upon.
(d) They cannot be presented in language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?

2. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?

3. What worry does Locke describe?

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

5. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?

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