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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(b) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(c) As the engine for language.
(d) As the history of sense experiences.

2. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?
(a) You have the category of the thing.
(b) You possess the thing as an idea.
(c) You know the design of the thing.
(d) You cease to see the thing.

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

4. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?
(a) Will.
(b) Desire.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Fate.

5. What did Locke study first?
(a) Differences in animal and human understanding.
(b) The weight of understanding.
(c) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.
(d) The origins of understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?

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

3. What happens to the man in the illustration?

4. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

5. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?

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