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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is NOT a category of complex ideas, according to Locke?
(a) Modes.
(b) Relations.
(c) Styles.
(d) Substances.

2. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) The inexorable shape of history.
(b) The mathematics of probabilities.
(c) Divine will.
(d) Causal necessity in nature.

3. What does Locke's illustration show?
(a) That hell is other people.
(b) That fate wears a human face.
(c) That a man can be clear in will but unfree in action.
(d) That a man can be deceived about his relation with other men.

4. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?
(a) Color.
(b) Sound.
(c) Taste.
(d) Language.

5. What are people who believe in human freedom called?
(a) Determinists.
(b) Relativists.
(c) Fatalists.
(d) Libertarians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?

2. What are modes, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say each distinct idea is?

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

5. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

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