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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's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?
(a) Reflecting on numbers.
(b) Constructing simple modes.
(c) Constructing complex modes.
(d) Seeing points of view.

2. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?
(a) Prophesy.
(b) Art.
(c) Unintelligibility.
(d) Madness.

3. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) The mathematics of probabilities.
(b) Causal necessity in nature.
(c) Divine will.
(d) The inexorable shape of history.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say perception creates?

2. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

3. How does Locke define will?

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

5. How does Locke define desire?

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