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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Comparative religion.
(d) Epistemology.

2. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?
(a) The divine intention in every thing.
(b) The chemical composition of the thing.
(c) The being-in-time of each thing.
(d) The properties that distinguish it from other similar things.

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

4. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(b) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(c) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(d) To break understanding into its parts.

5. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?
(a) The senses.
(b) God.
(c) The genes.
(d) The collective unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?

2. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?

3. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

4. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?

5. What qualities does Locke say things have?

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