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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 say was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(b) How the body registers knowledge.
(c) How we know things.
(d) How we form beliefs.

2. What is it that contributed to the pervasiveness of language, in Locke's account?
(a) Legal disputes.
(b) The use of general terms.
(c) The simplicity of grammar.
(d) Dictionaries.

3. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Evaluate the propriety of things.
(b) Correct one's ideas.
(c) Test an idea's truth value.
(d) Distinguish between things.

4. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because instincts are not moral.
(b) Because there is no room in the genes.
(c) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(d) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the man in the illustration?

2. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?

3. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

4. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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

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