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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Interactions.
(b) They do not originate.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Things themselves.

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

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

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

7. What qualities does Locke say things have?
(a) Simple and complex.
(b) Essential and contingent.
(c) Practical and symbolic.
(d) Primary and secondary.

8. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Self-aware.
(b) Complex.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Basic.

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

10. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(b) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.
(c) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(d) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.

11. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?
(a) They are mutually exclusive.
(b) Reflection works first.
(c) They are not totally different.
(d) Sensation provides material for reflection.

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

13. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(b) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.
(c) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(d) He says that qualities can change in memory.

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

15. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Renew them.
(b) Abandon them.
(c) Test them.
(d) Challenge them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is substance, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

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

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

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

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