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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 an abstract idea cannot be broken down?
(a) Complex ideas.
(b) Simple ideas.
(c) Distinct ideas.
(d) Detailed words.

2. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?
(a) Using words incorrectly deliberately.
(b) Using words to insult people.
(c) Inventing meanings for words.
(d) Using words without clear meaning.

3. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(b) Because instincts are not moral.
(c) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(d) Because there is no room in the genes.

4. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Combinations of simple ideas.
(b) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(c) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(d) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.

5. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) A prophecy.
(b) The next general word.
(c) A memory of pleasure or pain.
(d) An image.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?

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

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

4. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?

5. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

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