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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. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?
(a) You see it in context.
(b) You use it for religious purposes.
(c) You see the opposite of the idea.
(d) You subtract particulars.

2. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?
(a) Pursuit of happiness.
(b) Pursuit of profit.
(c) Relief of suffering.
(d) Compassion for others.

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

4. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(b) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(c) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.
(d) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are modes, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

3. What does Locke say perception creates?

4. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?

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

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