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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(b) He says that qualities can change in memory.
(c) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(d) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.

2. What does Locke use to illustrate the difference between freedom and fate?
(a) A prisoner.
(b) A sick man.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A sleeping man.

3. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) Whether ideas are innate.
(b) Whether ideas are moral.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) What the mind is.

4. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(b) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(c) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(d) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are modes, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

3. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

4. How does Locke characterize perception?

5. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

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