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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which school of philosophy divided essences into real and nominal?
(a) Aristotelians.
(b) Spinozans.
(c) Thomists.
(d) Platonists.

2. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.
(b) They are the inertia of things.
(c) They have no internal direction.
(d) They are essential to the things themselves.

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A library.
(b) A blank slate.
(c) A cultural storehouse.
(d) A battlefield.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?

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

4. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

5. What is substance, according to Locke?

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