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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(b) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

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

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

4. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) Whether ideas are moral.
(b) What the mind is.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) Whether ideas are innate.

5. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Animals.
(b) Children and idiots.
(c) Angels.
(d) Adult males only.

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

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

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

9. 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 doubted.
(d) It must be established anew each generation.

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

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

12. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To break understanding into its parts.
(b) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(c) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(d) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.

13. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Comparative religion.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Existentialism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

3. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

4. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

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

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