View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that contributed to the pervasiveness of language, in Locke's account?
(a) Dictionaries.
(b) The simplicity of grammar.
(c) The use of general terms.
(d) Legal disputes.

2. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?
(a) Things in general.
(b) Essences of things.
(c) The context for things.
(d) Particular things.

3. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?
(a) Unstructured.
(b) Clear and powerful.
(c) Chaotic.
(d) Unintelligible.

4. How does Locke define desire?
(a) The force that moves the world.
(b) The projection of happiness on things outside the self.
(c) The urgent need to merge with something outside the self.
(d) The need to return to a previous bliss.

5. Which school of philosophy divided essences into real and nominal?
(a) Platonists.
(b) Thomists.
(c) Spinozans.
(d) Aristotelians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

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

3. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

4. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

5. How does Locke say ideas change over time?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 196 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample