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

2. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.
(b) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.

3. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Plotinus.

4. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Evaluate the propriety of things.
(b) Distinguish between things.
(c) Test an idea's truth value.
(d) Correct one's ideas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

2. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

3. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

4. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?

5. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

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