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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) Science.
(c) Space.
(d) Water.

2. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Senses.
(c) Collective unconscious.
(d) Memory.

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

4. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Doubt and hate.
(b) Eat and digest them.
(c) Aspire to them.
(d) Name and organize them.

5. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) What the mind is.
(b) Whether ideas are moral.
(c) Whether ideas are innate.
(d) How understanding uses ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

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

3. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

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

5. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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