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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?
(a) Freedom is the ability to let an internal power dictate one's actions; will is the source of the internal power.
(b) Freedom is the ability to act; will is a type of power.
(c) Freedom is the ability to act; will is the freedom to choose.
(d) Freedom is riding light in the harness; will is the engine for progress.

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A cultural storehouse.
(b) A battlefield.
(c) A blank slate.
(d) A library.

4. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(b) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.
(c) Garlic has many different stages of development.
(d) Different cultures use it for different things.

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(b) Secondary qualities will not change.
(c) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(d) Primary qualities will not change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say words refer to?

2. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

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

4. What does Locke say desires have in common?

5. How does Locke define desire?

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