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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Combine ideas.
(b) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(c) Replace ideas with other ideas.
(d) Invent new ideas.

2. What does Locke say the increase of our intellectual powers follows?
(a) Standardization of terminology.
(b) Simplification of ideas.
(c) Expansion of vocabulary.
(d) Abstraction of ideas.

3. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Senses.
(b) Collective unconscious.
(c) Experience.
(d) Memory.

4. What consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?
(a) Politics would be chaotic.
(b) Knowledge would be impeded.
(c) Trade would be impossible.
(d) Economies would remain simple.

5. Where does knowledge of God come from, according to Locke?
(a) Our cultural traditions.
(b) Our emotional intuition that someone put us here.
(c) Our received testimony in Scripture.
(d) Our experience that unthinking things cannot create thinking things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the man in the illustration?

2. What is the role of reasons in faith?

3. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?

4. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?

5. What is it that contributed to the pervasiveness of language, in Locke's account?

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