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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 is substance, according to Locke?
(a) The history of a thing.
(b) The essence of a thing.
(c) Separation between things.
(d) The abstraction of a thing.

2. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(b) As the history of sense experiences.
(c) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(d) As the engine for language.

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

4. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Time.
(b) Space.
(c) Science.
(d) Water.

5. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.
(b) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(c) He says that it is a kettle of fish.
(d) He says that it is too wide a net.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

4. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?

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

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