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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Presentability.
(b) Translatability.
(c) Variability.
(d) Universal consent.

2. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?
(a) They are mutually exclusive.
(b) Sensation provides material for reflection.
(c) They are not totally different.
(d) Reflection works first.

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

4. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities will not change.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Secondary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

5. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Animals.
(b) Children and idiots.
(c) Adult males only.
(d) Angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does sensitive knowledge come from?

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

3. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?

4. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?

5. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

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