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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. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The consequence of knowledge.
(b) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(c) The least important component in knowledge.
(d) The only foundation for knowledge.

2. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(b) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(c) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.
(d) He says that qualities can change in memory.

3. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Experiences.
(b) Things themselves.
(c) They do not originate.
(d) Interactions.

4. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(b) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities will not change.
(b) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(c) Primary qualities will not change.
(d) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

2. What does reflection create ideas out of?

3. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

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

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

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