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

2. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Children and idiots.
(b) Angels.
(c) Animals.
(d) Adult males only.

3. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(b) To break understanding into its parts.
(c) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(d) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.

4. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Absolutist.
(b) Relativist.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Pragmatic.

5. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) That it has the ability to replicate itself.
(b) How frequently it occurs.
(c) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.
(d) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

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

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

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