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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) People.
(b) Chairs.
(c) History.
(d) Nature.

3. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?
(a) Deconstruction.
(b) Relativists.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Ordinary language philosophy.

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

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities will not change.
(b) Primary qualities will not change.
(c) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke characterize perception?

3. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?

4. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?

5. What is a power, according to Locke?

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