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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?
(a) Using words without clear meaning.
(b) Using words incorrectly deliberately.
(c) Inventing meanings for words.
(d) Using words to insult people.

2. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(b) The consequence of knowledge.
(c) The least important component in knowledge.
(d) The only foundation for knowledge.

3. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Experiences.

4. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?
(a) When it develops into a philosophy.
(b) When it merges with will.
(c) When it is unrequited.
(d) When it first stirs.

5. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?
(a) Essences of things.
(b) Things in general.
(c) The context for things.
(d) Particular things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a power, according to Locke?

2. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?

3. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

4. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

5. What does Locke say words refer to?

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