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

2. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The consequence of knowledge.
(b) The least important component in knowledge.
(c) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(d) The only foundation for knowledge.

3. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?
(a) The genes.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) God.
(d) The senses.

4. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) It must be believed by everyone.
(b) No objections should exist to it.
(c) There can only be one explanation for it.
(d) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(b) Primary qualities will not change.
(c) Secondary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

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

3. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

4. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

5. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

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