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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Collective unconscious.
(b) Senses.
(c) Experience.
(d) Memory.

6. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A blank slate.
(b) A cultural storehouse.
(c) A library.
(d) A battlefield.

7. How does Locke define simple ideas?
(a) They cannot be built upon.
(b) They cannot be presented in language.
(c) They cannot be broken down into parts.
(d) They can only be seen in behavior.

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

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

10. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) No objections should exist to it.
(b) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.
(c) There can only be one explanation for it.
(d) It must be believed by everyone.

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

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

13. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) It would be secret and unspoken.
(b) No one would be able to capture or limit it.
(c) It would have to be approved by a majority.
(d) Everyone would have to believe it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

2. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

3. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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