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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 use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Time.
(b) Space.
(c) Water.
(d) Science.

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(b) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(c) Envy is bound to the passions.
(d) Language is never more than self-referential.

3. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(b) Invent new ideas.
(c) Replace ideas with other ideas.
(d) Combine ideas.

4. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That not everyone believes them.
(b) That they are questionable.
(c) That they are culturally relative.
(d) That they are determined by cultural forces.

5. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?
(a) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.
(b) It cannot reckon things that cannot be perceived.
(c) We cannot turn it against itself.
(d) We cannot use it in religion or spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

2. How does Locke define perception?

3. How does Locke describe reflection?

4. What does Locke describe in Book II?

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

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