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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 reflection create ideas out of?
(a) Sensation.
(b) History.
(c) Language itself.
(d) The mind's own operations.

2. What are propositions?
(a) Accepted truths.
(b) Strings of ideas.
(c) Theorems.
(d) Hypotheses.

3. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?
(a) They are arbitrary.
(b) They are divine.
(c) They are innate.
(d) They are determined.

4. What worry is Locke sensitive to, in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) That language is never better than self-referential.
(b) That the world does not exist.
(c) That true knowledge is impossible.
(d) That doubt is eternal.

5. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?
(a) Morality.
(b) Number.
(c) Complex modes of ideas.
(d) Variety.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?

3. What is Locke's argument for the existence of God?

4. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?

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