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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What defines a philosophical usage of a word, according to Locke?
(a) Generally accepted definitions.
(b) Technical uses in court.
(c) Highly specialized definitions.
(d) Essential, eternal meanings.

2. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The consequence of knowledge.
(b) The only foundation for knowledge.
(c) The least important component in knowledge.
(d) One of the ingredients of knowledge.

3. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?
(a) A set of dispositions.
(b) A history of turmoil.
(c) A white piece of paper.
(d) A power keg.

4. What do representational ideas represent?
(a) The conclusions that follow from ideas.
(b) The experiences that contain an idea.
(c) The things that generated the ideas.
(d) The language that expresses ideas.

5. What are people who do not believe in free will called?
(a) Fatalists.
(b) Determinists.
(c) Relativists.
(d) Ontologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

2. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?

4. How does Locke define probability?

5. What defines demonstrative knowledge, in Locke's account?

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