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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 does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The consequences of them.
(b) The words that refer to them.
(c) The uses they can be put to.
(d) The morality of them.

2. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To break understanding into its parts.
(b) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(c) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(d) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.

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

4. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) Chairs.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) People.

5. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the history of sense experiences.
(b) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(c) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(d) As the engine for language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke say ideas change over time?

2. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

3. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

4. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

5. What does reflection create ideas out of?

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