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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Turn an idea into a representative.
(b) Deduce a meaning from a category.
(c) See a concept in a sense experience.
(d) Contradict an idea.

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

3. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities will not change.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Secondary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be learned.
(b) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(c) It must be established anew each generation.
(d) It must be doubted.

5. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(b) He says that qualities can change in memory.
(c) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(d) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?

2. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?

3. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

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

5. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

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