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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between reasons and faith, according to Locke?
(a) Reason supersedes faith because it proceeds from known facts.
(b) Reason and faith are both irrelevant except as frameworks for understanding experience.
(c) Faith collapses into reason because it requires evaluation.
(d) Faith subsumes reason because even fundamental ideas need to be believed in first.

2. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The words that refer to them.
(b) The morality of them.
(c) The consequences of them.
(d) The uses they can be put to.

3. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?
(a) They are mutually exclusive.
(b) They are not totally different.
(c) Reflection works first.
(d) Sensation provides material for reflection.

4. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?
(a) Clarify meanings of terms.
(b) Arrive at truth.
(c) Recall the steps by which truth was arrived at.
(d) Demolish opponents' arguments.

5. What does Locke say about the existence of the self?
(a) It does not need proof.
(b) It is an insoluble mystery.
(c) It is the beginning of all philosophy.
(d) It cannot be proven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

2. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?

3. How does Locke define 'idea'?

4. How does Locke define love?

5. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

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