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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 was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we know things.
(b) How the body registers knowledge.
(c) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(d) How we form beliefs.

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

3. What does Locke say truth is a property of?
(a) God.
(b) Facts.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Propositions.

4. How does Locke resolve the contradiction between people who believe in free will and people who do not?
(a) He says that people have a choice whether to follow their wills.
(b) He says that determinism is determined in free choices in every moment.
(c) He says that the world has choices, even if people do not.
(d) He says that there is indeterminism on a sub-atomic level, that allows for free choice.

5. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?
(a) Locke says that there is too little room for interpretation in simple ideas.
(b) Locke says that most words are general.
(c) Locke says that most simple ideas are too unspecific.
(d) Locke says that simple ideas are too pervasive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

2. How does Locke describe his theory of knowledge?

3. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

4. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

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