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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 reflection create ideas out of?
(a) Language itself.
(b) History.
(c) Sensation.
(d) The mind's own operations.

2. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Complex.
(b) Basic.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Self-aware.

3. How does Locke define 'idea'?
(a) The source of understanding.
(b) The purpose of understanding.
(c) The result of understanding.
(d) The object of understanding.

4. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Time.
(b) Space.
(c) Water.
(d) Science.

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Comparative religion.
(d) Epistemology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?

2. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

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

4. How does Locke define perception?

5. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

(see the answer key)

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