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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 modes, according to Locke?
(a) Opposites.
(b) Methods of describing things.
(c) Halves of a paradox.
(d) Combinations of substances.

2. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They are the inertia of things.
(b) They are essential to the things themselves.
(c) They have no internal direction.
(d) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.

3. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) Causal necessity in nature.
(b) Divine will.
(c) The inexorable shape of history.
(d) The mathematics of probabilities.

4. What abuse does Locke say is typical of scholars?
(a) Using obscure words.
(b) Using poetic language.
(c) Using technical language.
(d) Using foreign languages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?

2. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?

3. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?

4. How does Locke define truth?

5. What does Locke say is the purpose of language?

(see the answer key)

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