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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 garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) Different cultures use it for different things.
(b) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(c) Garlic has many different stages of development.
(d) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?
(a) They form the instincts.
(b) They do not constitute innate knowledge.
(c) They must be un-learned.
(d) They are the basis of innate knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a category of complex ideas, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

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

4. How does Locke characterize perception?

5. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

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