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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the man in the illustration?
(a) He is told that someone he knows has died.
(b) He is given the ability to punish another man.
(c) He runs an experiment on another man.
(d) He is carried into another room while sleeping.

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

3. What does Locke say is another word for retention?
(a) Memory.
(b) Wit.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ego.

4. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Incomplete.
(b) Basic.
(c) Self-aware.
(d) Complex.

5. What is it that contributed to the pervasiveness of language, in Locke's account?
(a) Legal disputes.
(b) The use of general terms.
(c) Dictionaries.
(d) The simplicity of grammar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say is the purpose of language?

4. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

5. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?

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