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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?
(a) Experiences.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Chaos.

2. What is Locke's argument for the existence of God?
(a) The existence of the Bible.
(b) There must have been someone from whom all things came.
(c) His experience of innate morality.
(d) Miracles.

3. What defines demonstrative knowledge, in Locke's account?
(a) It is self-evident.
(b) It uses non-scientific methods of proof.
(c) It can be proved with faith.
(d) It requires explicit proof.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be learned.
(b) It must be established anew each generation.
(c) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(d) It must be doubted.

5. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(b) That they are culturally relative.
(c) That not everyone believes them.
(d) That they are questionable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?

2. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

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

4. How does Locke define will?

5. What are people who do not believe in free will called?

(see the answer key)

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