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

2. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(b) It must be learned.
(c) It must be doubted.
(d) It must be established anew each generation.

3. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(b) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(c) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(d) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?

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

3. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?

4. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

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

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