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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 limitation of understanding, according to Locke?
(a) We cannot use it in religion or spirituality.
(b) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.
(c) We cannot turn it against itself.
(d) It cannot reckon things that cannot be perceived.

2. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) An image.
(b) The next general word.
(c) A prophecy.
(d) A memory of pleasure or pain.

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Forget ideas.
(b) Evaluate ideas.
(c) Store ideas.
(d) Organize ideas.

4. How does Locke define desire?
(a) The force that moves the world.
(b) The urgent need to merge with something outside the self.
(c) The projection of happiness on things outside the self.
(d) The need to return to a previous bliss.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

3. What does Locke say each distinct idea is?

4. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?

5. How does Locke characterize perception?

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