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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(b) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(c) As the engine for language.
(d) As the history of sense experiences.

2. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?
(a) Clear and powerful.
(b) Unintelligible.
(c) Unstructured.
(d) Chaotic.

3. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?
(a) Makes men powerful.
(b) Makes men unhappy.
(c) Makes men ambitious.
(d) Makes men satisfied.

4. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) A memory of pleasure or pain.
(b) A prophecy.
(c) An image.
(d) The next general word.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

2. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

3. How does Locke define passive powers?

4. What is reification?

5. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

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