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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Collective unconscious.
(b) Memory.
(c) Experience.
(d) Senses.

3. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?
(a) A white piece of paper.
(b) A history of turmoil.
(c) A power keg.
(d) A set of dispositions.

4. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?
(a) Children and idiost.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Grown men and women.
(d) Men.

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 consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?

2. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

4. How has God formed man, according to Locke?

5. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

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