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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(b) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(c) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(d) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) Relative to the passions.
(b) Biologically.
(c) In a vacuum.
(d) As the result of evolution.

3. What is Locke's argument for the existence of God?
(a) Miracles.
(b) There must have been someone from whom all things came.
(c) His experience of innate morality.
(d) The existence of the Bible.

4. Where does sensitive knowledge come from?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Experimentation.
(c) Emotional experience.
(d) Direct contact.

5. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?
(a) Demolish opponents' arguments.
(b) Recall the steps by which truth was arrived at.
(c) Arrive at truth.
(d) Clarify meanings of terms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

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

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

4. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

5. What does reflection create ideas out of?

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