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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 did Locke study first?
(a) The origins of understanding.
(b) Differences in animal and human understanding.
(c) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.
(d) The weight of understanding.

2. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) Why we should or should not believe certain things.
(b) What the mind is.
(c) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(d) Where our beliefs come from.

3. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) How frequently it occurs.
(b) That it has the ability to replicate itself.
(c) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.
(d) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.

4. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.
(b) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.
(c) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.
(d) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.

5. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Plotinus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

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

4. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

5. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

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