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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 is the clearest kind of knowledge?
(a) Demonstrative knowledge.
(b) Experiential knowledge.
(c) Scientific knowledge.
(d) Intuitive knowledge.

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

3. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) Different cultures use it for different things.
(b) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.
(c) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(d) Garlic has many different stages of development.

4. What do representational ideas represent?
(a) The language that expresses ideas.
(b) The experiences that contain an idea.
(c) The conclusions that follow from ideas.
(d) The things that generated the ideas.

5. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) In the universe.
(b) Historical narratives.
(c) Interactions.
(d) Things themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define judgment?

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?

3. What does Locke say desires have in common?

4. What does Locke say perception creates?

5. Which grammatical particle does Locke examine in detail?

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