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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 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.

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

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

4. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(b) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(c) As the engine for language.
(d) As the history of sense experiences.

5. What does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Language.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(b) It must be learned.
(c) It must be established anew each generation.
(d) It must be doubted.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

2. What does Locke describe the mind as?

3. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

5. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

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