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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) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(b) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(c) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(d) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.

2. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(b) It must be learned.
(c) It must be doubted.
(d) It must be established anew each generation.

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

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

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Comparative religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke describe in Book II?

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

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

4. How does Locke define perception?

5. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

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