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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 was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(b) How we form beliefs.
(c) How the body registers knowledge.
(d) How we know things.

2. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says that it is a kettle of fish.
(b) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(c) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.
(d) He says that it is too wide a net.

3. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.
(b) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.
(c) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
(d) The idea that God is infallible.

4. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.
(b) How frequently it occurs.
(c) That it has the ability to replicate itself.
(d) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.

5. What qualities does Locke say things have?
(a) Practical and symbolic.
(b) Simple and complex.
(c) Essential and contingent.
(d) Primary and secondary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

3. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

4. What does Locke say perception creates?

5. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

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