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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 say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be doubted.
(b) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(c) It must be established anew each generation.
(d) It must be learned.

2. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) Different cultures use it for different things.
(b) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.
(c) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(d) Garlic has many different stages of development.

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

4. What does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

2. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

3. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

4. What qualities does Locke say things have?

5. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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