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

2. How does Locke define 'idea'?
(a) The result of understanding.
(b) The object of understanding.
(c) The purpose of understanding.
(d) The source of understanding.

3. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Self-aware.
(b) Complex.
(c) Basic.
(d) Incomplete.

4. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Plato.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plotinus.

5. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It obligates people to constant conversation.
(b) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(c) It does not invalidate it.
(d) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

2. What qualities does Locke say things have?

3. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

4. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

5. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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