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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(b) To break understanding into its parts.
(c) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(d) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.

3. 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 distinction between knowledge of the world and spiritual knowledge.
(c) The basis for skepticism.
(d) Certainty that knowledge is about the real world.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be learned.
(b) It must be doubted.
(c) It must be established anew each generation.
(d) It should be scientifically evaluated.

5. On what basis, in Locke's opinion, do we know that we exist?
(a) Deduction.
(b) Moral experience.
(c) Metaphysical knowledge.
(d) Individuation of sense experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

3. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?

4. What is the effect of a passive power?

5. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

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