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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Clear and powerful.
(c) Unstructured.
(d) Unintelligible.

2. What does reflection create ideas out of?
(a) Sensation.
(b) The mind's own operations.
(c) Language itself.
(d) History.

3. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?
(a) Compassion for others.
(b) Pursuit of profit.
(c) Pursuit of happiness.
(d) Relief of suffering.

4. What does Locke say each distinct idea is?
(a) A general idea.
(b) An essence.
(c) A simple idea.
(d) A word.

5. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) How understanding uses ideas.
(b) Whether ideas are moral.
(c) What the mind is.
(d) Whether ideas are innate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?

2. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

3. What is the role of reasons in faith?

4. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

5. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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