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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Language.
(d) Symbols.

2. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?
(a) Ultimate variety.
(b) One.
(c) Zero.
(d) Infinity.

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

4. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?
(a) Pain and pleasure.
(b) Cause and effect.
(c) Freedom and fate.
(d) Good and evil.

5. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(b) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(c) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(d) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

2. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

3. How does Locke define perception?

4. What does reflection create ideas out of?

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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