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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Language.

2. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) Where our beliefs come from.
(b) Why we should or should not believe certain things.
(c) What the mind is.
(d) Why some beliefs are better than others.

3. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?
(a) Complex modes of ideas.
(b) Variety.
(c) Number.
(d) Morality.

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

5. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Relativist.
(c) Absolutist.
(d) Pragmatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

2. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?

3. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

4. How does Locke characterize perception?

5. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?

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