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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 say retention allows us to do?
(a) Evaluate ideas.
(b) Store ideas.
(c) Organize ideas.
(d) Forget ideas.

2. 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 means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.
(c) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(d) It does not invalidate it.

3. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?
(a) Language.
(b) Sound.
(c) Taste.
(d) Color.

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Senses.
(b) God.
(c) Experience.
(d) Inspiration.

5. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?
(a) The senses.
(b) The genes.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are modes, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

4. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?

5. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

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