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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 reflection create ideas out of?
(a) History.
(b) The mind's own operations.
(c) Sensation.
(d) Language itself.

2. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(b) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(c) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(d) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.

3. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Methods of describing things.
(b) Opposites.
(c) Combinations of substances.
(d) Halves of a paradox.

4. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Presentability.
(b) Variability.
(c) Translatability.
(d) Universal consent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe reflection?

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

3. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

4. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

5. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?

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