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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke define truth?
(a) Intuitive understanding.
(b) Consensus.
(c) The physical experience of certainty.
(d) The agreement of signs with one another.

2. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) There can only be one explanation for it.
(b) No objections should exist to it.
(c) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.
(d) It must be believed by everyone.

3. What does Locke's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?
(a) Constructing simple modes.
(b) Reflecting on numbers.
(c) Constructing complex modes.
(d) Seeing points of view.

4. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Acts and punishments.
(c) Gods and devils.
(d) Science and superstition.

5. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?
(a) No one would know that classes of things existed.
(b) No one would understand each other's vocabulary.
(c) Everyone would need to be an even larger language for classes of things.
(d) There would have to be a word for each thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

2. How does Locke define judgment?

3. What is Locke's argument for the existence of God?

4. What does reflection create ideas out of?

5. What examples of intuitive knowledge does Locke use?

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