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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Universal consent.
(b) Variability.
(c) Presentability.
(d) Translatability.

2. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Morality.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Faith.

3. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?
(a) By analyzing our ideas of those things.
(b) By performing experiments on the things.
(c) By breaking things into their constituent parts.
(d) By meditating on the things.

4. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?
(a) Words used in politics.
(b) Words used in court.
(c) Words used in diplomacy.
(d) Words used in everyday communication.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?

2. How does Locke say ideas change over time?

3. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?

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

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