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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Language is never more than self-referential.
(b) Envy is bound to the passions.
(c) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(d) Compassion is removed from understanding.

3. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Language.
(c) Envy.
(d) Compassion.

4. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Historicism.
(c) Utilitarianism.
(d) Socialism.

5. What does Locke say words refer to?
(a) Inner ideas.
(b) Things in the world.
(c) Plants and animals.
(d) Experiences of pleasure and pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What abuse does Locke say is typical of scholars?

2. What kind of truth is concerned with the essences of things?

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

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

5. What are people who believe in human freedom called?

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