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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. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Senses.
(c) Memory.
(d) Collective unconscious.

2. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) The mind itself.
(b) History.
(c) Sense experiences.
(d) Genes.

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

4. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) Biologically.
(b) Relative to the passions.
(c) In a vacuum.
(d) As the result of evolution.

5. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Innate knowledge.
(b) Reasons.
(c) Politics.
(d) Mysteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define simple ideas?

2. What qualities does Locke say things have?

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

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

5. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

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