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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?
(a) The idea of God.
(b) The idea of human superiority.
(c) The idea of nature.
(d) The idea of animal.

2. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?
(a) Our bodies and minds.
(b) Grains of sand.
(c) Trees in a forest.
(d) Flocks of geese.

3. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?
(a) You subtract particulars.
(b) You see it in context.
(c) You see the opposite of the idea.
(d) You use it for religious purposes.

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

5. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?
(a) Make them refer to any ideas.
(b) Create feelings in others.
(c) Communicate any feeling.
(d) Describe any experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke describe the mind as?

2. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?

3. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

4. What are people who believe in human freedom called?

5. How does Locke define passive powers?

(see the answer key)

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