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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. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Turn an idea into a representative.
(b) Deduce a meaning from a category.
(c) Contradict an idea.
(d) See a concept in a sense experience.

2. 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.

3. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) As the result of evolution.
(b) In a vacuum.
(c) Relative to the passions.
(d) Biologically.

4. How does Locke describe the work principles do?
(a) They capture experiences.
(b) They guide actions.
(c) They define morals.
(d) They determine laws.

5. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?
(a) They do not constitute innate knowledge.
(b) They form the instincts.
(c) They are the basis of innate knowledge.
(d) They must be un-learned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

2. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

5. How does Locke describe experience?

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