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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?
(a) He advocated experiments in free will.
(b) He demonstrated the inevitability of free choice.
(c) He proposed different ways to tempt fate.
(d) He proposed a third position.

2. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?
(a) Communicate any feeling.
(b) Create feelings in others.
(c) Make them refer to any ideas.
(d) Describe any experience.

3. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(b) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(c) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(d) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.

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

5. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?
(a) Makes men unhappy.
(b) Makes men satisfied.
(c) Makes men powerful.
(d) Makes men ambitious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

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

4. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?

5. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

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