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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?
(a) Color.
(b) Taste.
(c) Sound.
(d) Language.

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

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

5. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) Garlic has many different stages of development.
(b) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(c) Different cultures use it for different things.
(d) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?

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

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

5. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

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