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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Invent new ideas.
(b) Combine ideas.
(c) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(d) Replace ideas with other ideas.

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

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

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

5. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) In a vacuum.
(b) Biologically.
(c) As the result of evolution.
(d) Relative to the passions.

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

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

8. How does Locke describe the work principles do?
(a) They guide actions.
(b) They define morals.
(c) They determine laws.
(d) They capture experiences.

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

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

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

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

13. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Primary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities will not change.

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

15. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(b) He says that it is a kettle of fish.
(c) He says that it is too wide a net.
(d) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

2. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?

3. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?

5. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

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