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

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

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

4. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?
(a) Bringing two simple ideas together without uniting them.
(b) Combing several simple ideas into a new, complex idea.
(c) Abstracting from a simple idea into a general idea.
(d) Deriving an idea from a sense experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

2. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

3. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

4. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

5. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

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