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

2. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Challenge them.
(b) Abandon them.
(c) Test them.
(d) Renew them.

3. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Angels.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children and idiots.
(d) Adult males only.

4. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Universal consent.
(b) Presentability.
(c) Translatability.
(d) Variability.

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Envy is bound to the passions.
(b) Language is never more than self-referential.
(c) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(d) Reason is closed to direct perception.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

3. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

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

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?

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