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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke define perception?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Passive.
(d) Syncretic.

2. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?
(a) Things in general.
(b) The context for things.
(c) Particular things.
(d) Essences of things.

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Forget ideas.
(b) Store ideas.
(c) Evaluate ideas.
(d) Organize ideas.

4. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Morality.
(c) Faith.
(d) Knowledge.

5. What do representational ideas represent?
(a) The things that generated the ideas.
(b) The experiences that contain an idea.
(c) The conclusions that follow from ideas.
(d) The language that expresses ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define complex ideas?

2. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?

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

4. What does Locke describe in Book II?

5. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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