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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?
(a) The idea of innate knowledge.
(b) The idea of original sin.
(c) The idea of transubstantiation.
(d) The idea of cultural relativism.

2. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?
(a) Combing several simple ideas into a new, complex idea.
(b) Abstracting from a simple idea into a general idea.
(c) Deriving an idea from a sense experience.
(d) Bringing two simple ideas together without uniting them.

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A cultural storehouse.
(b) A library.
(c) A battlefield.
(d) A blank slate.

4. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(b) That they are questionable.
(c) That they are culturally relative.
(d) That not everyone believes them.

5. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) What the mind is.
(b) Whether ideas are innate.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) Whether ideas are moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

2. What qualities does Locke say things have?

3. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

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

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?

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