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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) The mind itself.
(b) History.
(c) Genes.
(d) Sense experiences.

4. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(b) Replace ideas with other ideas.
(c) Invent new ideas.
(d) Combine ideas.

5. What does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Language.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Symbols.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is substance, according to Locke?

2. What do we have when an abstract idea cannot be broken down?

3. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?

4. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

(see the answer key)

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