2. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Combinations of simple ideas.
(b) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.
(c) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(d) The field of experience that inspires ideas.

3. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Envy.
(c) Language.
(d) Compassion.

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

5. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Time.
(b) Space.
(c) Water.
(d) Science.

6. What does reflection create ideas out of?
(a) Sensation.
(b) History.
(c) The mind's own operations.
(d) Language itself.

7. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) Where our beliefs come from.
(b) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(c) Why we should or should not believe certain things.
(d) What the mind is.

8. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?
(a) God.
(b) The senses.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) The genes.

9. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be doubted.
(b) It must be established anew each generation.
(c) It must be learned.
(d) It should be scientifically evaluated.

10. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Name and organize them.
(b) Eat and digest them.
(c) Doubt and hate.
(d) Aspire to them.

11. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Politics.
(b) Reasons.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Innate knowledge.

12. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Milton.

13. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plotinus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

14. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Epistemology.
(b) Comparative religion.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Existentialism.

15. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The only foundation for knowledge.
(b) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(c) The consequence of knowledge.
(d) The least important component in knowledge.