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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 are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Methods of describing things.
(b) Opposites.
(c) Halves of a paradox.
(d) Combinations of substances.

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) Whether ideas are innate.
(b) Whether ideas are moral.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) What the mind is.

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

4. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.
(b) Combinations of simple ideas.
(c) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(d) The field of experience that inspires ideas.

5. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) History.
(b) The mind itself.
(c) Genes.
(d) Sense experiences.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

3. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

4. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

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

(see the answer key)

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