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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 we about words that cannot be defined any further?
(a) They are complex ideas.
(b) They are simple ideas.
(c) They are general words.
(d) They are essential ideas.

2. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?
(a) Historians.
(b) Metaphysical philosophers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Materialist philosophers.

3. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(b) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(c) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(d) To break understanding into its parts.

4. What does Locke say is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?
(a) Analysis.
(b) Experimentation.
(c) Debate.
(d) Reflection.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What defines a philosophical usage of a word, according to Locke?

2. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

3. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?

4. What does Locke say words refer to?

5. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

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