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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. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Interactions.
(b) Historical narratives.
(c) Things themselves.
(d) In the universe.

2. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) No objections should exist to it.
(b) It must be believed by everyone.
(c) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.
(d) There can only be one explanation for it.

3. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?
(a) Grown men and women.
(b) Men.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Children and idiost.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

2. What are modes, according to Locke?

3. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

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

5. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

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