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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 branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Utilitarianism.
(d) Historicism.

2. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(b) Combinations of simple ideas.
(c) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.
(d) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.

3. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?
(a) Sensation.
(b) The mind.
(c) God.
(d) History.

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

5. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The uses they can be put to.
(b) The consequences of them.
(c) The words that refer to them.
(d) The morality of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

2. How does Locke describe reflection?

3. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. What are modes, according to Locke?

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

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