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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Memory.
(b) Senses.
(c) Experience.
(d) Collective unconscious.

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

3. 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 seeds for trees but food for animals.
(d) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.

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

5. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Halves of a paradox.
(b) Methods of describing things.
(c) Combinations of substances.
(d) Opposites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities does Locke say things have?

2. How does Locke describe reflection?

3. How does Locke describe experience?

4. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?

5. What are people who do not believe in free will called?

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