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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.
(b) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
(c) The idea that God is infallible.
(d) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.

2. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Distinguish between things.
(b) Evaluate the propriety of things.
(c) Test an idea's truth value.
(d) Correct one's ideas.

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are questionable.
(b) That they are culturally relative.
(c) That not everyone believes them.
(d) That they are determined by cultural forces.

4. What is substance, according to Locke?
(a) Separation between things.
(b) The essence of a thing.
(c) The abstraction of a thing.
(d) The history of a thing.

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

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

7. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(b) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(c) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

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

9. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?
(a) Abstracting from a simple idea into a general idea.
(b) Combing several simple ideas into a new, complex idea.
(c) Bringing two simple ideas together without uniting them.
(d) Deriving an idea from a sense experience.

10. What does Locke say is another word for retention?
(a) Ego.
(b) Wit.
(c) Memory.
(d) Intelligence.

11. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?
(a) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.
(b) We cannot turn it against itself.
(c) We cannot use it in religion or spirituality.
(d) It cannot reckon things that cannot be perceived.

12. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) How frequently it occurs.
(b) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.
(c) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.
(d) That it has the ability to replicate itself.

13. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?
(a) They are the basis of innate knowledge.
(b) They must be un-learned.
(c) They form the instincts.
(d) They do not constitute innate knowledge.

14. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?
(a) The idea of original sin.
(b) The idea of innate knowledge.
(c) The idea of cultural relativism.
(d) The idea of transubstantiation.

15. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Universal consent.
(b) Presentability.
(c) Variability.
(d) Translatability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

3. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

4. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

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