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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(b) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(c) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(d) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.

2. What abuse does Locke say is typical of scholars?
(a) Using foreign languages.
(b) Using poetic language.
(c) Using obscure words.
(d) Using technical language.

3. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?
(a) Bringing two simple ideas together without uniting them.
(b) Combing several simple ideas into a new, complex idea.
(c) Abstracting from a simple idea into a general idea.
(d) Deriving an idea from a sense experience.

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

5. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Evaluate the propriety of things.
(b) Test an idea's truth value.
(c) Correct one's ideas.
(d) Distinguish between things.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

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

4. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?

5. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?

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