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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Angels.
(b) Adult males only.
(c) Animals.
(d) Children and idiots.

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

4. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Milton.
(d) Erasmus.

5. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Doubt and hate.
(b) Eat and digest them.
(c) Name and organize them.
(d) Aspire to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?

2. What are people who do not believe in free will called?

3. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

4. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

5. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?

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