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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?
(a) Sound.
(b) Color.
(c) Language.
(d) Taste.

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

3. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Faith.
(d) Morality.

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

5. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A library.
(b) A battlefield.
(c) A blank slate.
(d) A cultural storehouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?

2. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?

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

4. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

5. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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