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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. How does Locke define perception?
(a) Syncretic.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Passive.

2. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Presentability.
(b) Variability.
(c) Translatability.
(d) Universal consent.

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are questionable.
(b) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(c) That they are culturally relative.
(d) That not everyone believes them.

4. What does Locke say is another word for retention?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Ego.
(c) Memory.
(d) Wit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

2. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

3. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

4. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?

5. How does Locke say ideas change over time?

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