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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 say about the form of signs and words?
(a) They are innate.
(b) They are divine.
(c) They are arbitrary.
(d) They are determined.

2. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Store ideas.
(b) Organize ideas.
(c) Evaluate ideas.
(d) Forget ideas.

3. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Senses.
(c) Collective unconscious.
(d) Memory.

4. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities will not change.
(b) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(c) Primary qualities will not change.
(d) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.

5. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?
(a) Simple ideas.
(b) The essence of an idea.
(c) Experience.
(d) Visions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

3. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?

4. What does reflection create ideas out of?

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

(see the answer key)

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