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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 did Locke study first?
(a) Differences in animal and human understanding.
(b) The origins of understanding.
(c) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.
(d) The weight of understanding.

2. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) Why we should or should not believe certain things.
(b) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(c) Where our beliefs come from.
(d) What the mind is.

3. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) Everyone would have to believe it.
(b) No one would be able to capture or limit it.
(c) It would be secret and unspoken.
(d) It would have to be approved by a majority.

4. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Renew them.
(b) Test them.
(c) Challenge them.
(d) Abandon them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

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

3. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

4. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

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