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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 is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(b) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(c) To break understanding into its parts.
(d) To define a unified theory of understanding.

2. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) History.
(b) Chairs.
(c) People.
(d) Nature.

3. How does Locke define perception?
(a) Syncretic.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) Absolute.
(d) Passive.

4. What does reflection create ideas out of?
(a) Sensation.
(b) The mind's own operations.
(c) Language itself.
(d) History.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?

3. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

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

5. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

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