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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 Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Forget ideas.
(b) Store ideas.
(c) Evaluate ideas.
(d) Organize ideas.

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

3. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?
(a) Desire.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Fate.
(d) Will.

4. What consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?
(a) Knowledge would be impeded.
(b) Trade would be impossible.
(c) Economies would remain simple.
(d) Politics would be chaotic.

5. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Basic.
(b) Complex.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Self-aware.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

2. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say is the purpose of language?

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

5. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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