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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Locke say ideas change over time?
(a) They ossify.
(b) They degrade.
(c) They solidify.
(d) They loosen up.

5. Which is NOT a category of complex ideas, according to Locke?
(a) Styles.
(b) Relations.
(c) Modes.
(d) Substances.

6. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The uses they can be put to.
(b) The morality of them.
(c) The consequences of them.
(d) The words that refer to them.

7. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Deduce a meaning from a category.
(b) Contradict an idea.
(c) See a concept in a sense experience.
(d) Turn an idea into a representative.

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

9. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?
(a) Reason.
(b) Perception.
(c) Science.
(d) Sensitivity.

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

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

12. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(b) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(c) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(d) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.

13. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Interactions.
(b) Historical narratives.
(c) Things themselves.
(d) In the universe.

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

15. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Evaluate ideas.
(b) Forget ideas.
(c) Store ideas.
(d) Organize ideas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. What does Locke say perception creates?

5. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?

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