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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we get from the fact that ideas that come from experience are taken to be representational?
(a) Certainty that knowledge is related to ideas.
(b) The basis for skepticism.
(c) Certainty that knowledge is about the real world.
(d) The distinction between knowledge of the world and spiritual knowledge.

2. What is the only object the mind and its faculties of understanding have, according to Locke?
(a) Senses.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Visions.
(d) Experiences.

3. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?
(a) They are simple ideas.
(b) They are essential ideas.
(c) They are complex ideas.
(d) They are general words.

4. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?
(a) When it is unrequited.
(b) When it develops into a philosophy.
(c) When it merges with will.
(d) When it first stirs.

5. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) There can only be one explanation for it.
(b) No objections should exist to it.
(c) It must be believed by everyone.
(d) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say faith requires?

3. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

4. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

5. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

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