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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Challenge them.
(b) Abandon them.
(c) Renew them.
(d) Test them.

2. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?
(a) One.
(b) Zero.
(c) Infinity.
(d) Ultimate variety.

3. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?
(a) Science.
(b) Sensitivity.
(c) Reason.
(d) Perception.

4. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Absolutist.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Relativist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke resolve the contradiction between people who believe in free will and people who do not?

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

3. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?

4. What is substance, according to Locke?

5. How does Locke describe reflection?

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