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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 say was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we know things.
(b) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(c) How we form beliefs.
(d) How the body registers knowledge.

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

3. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(b) Combinations of simple ideas.
(c) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(d) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.

4. How does Locke define 'idea'?
(a) The result of understanding.
(b) The source of understanding.
(c) The object of understanding.
(d) The purpose of understanding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

2. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

3. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

4. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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