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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.
(b) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.
(c) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.
(d) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.

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

6. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Absolutist.
(c) Relativist.
(d) Idealist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How does Locke define perception?
(a) Syncretic.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Passive.
(d) Synthetic.

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

15. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) God.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Senses.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

2. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

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

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

5. What does reflection create ideas out of?

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