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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?
(a) Visions.
(b) The essence of an idea.
(c) Experience.
(d) Simple ideas.

2. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?
(a) By breaking things into their constituent parts.
(b) By performing experiments on the things.
(c) By analyzing our ideas of those things.
(d) By meditating on the things.

3. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Feelings.

4. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?
(a) Cause and effect.
(b) Pain and pleasure.
(c) Freedom and fate.
(d) Good and evil.

5. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) Language.
(c) Culture.
(d) God and religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?

2. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

3. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

4. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?

5. How does Locke define complex ideas?

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