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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.
(b) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(c) Different cultures use it for different things.
(d) Garlic has many different stages of development.

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

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

5. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The only foundation for knowledge.
(b) The consequence of knowledge.
(c) The least important component in knowledge.
(d) One of the ingredients of knowledge.

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

7. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Organize ideas.
(b) Store ideas.
(c) Evaluate ideas.
(d) Forget ideas.

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

9. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It does not invalidate it.
(b) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(c) It obligates people to constant conversation.
(d) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.

10. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) How frequently it occurs.
(b) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.
(c) That it has the ability to replicate itself.
(d) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.

11. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(b) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(c) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(d) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.

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

13. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) Sense experiences.
(b) History.
(c) The mind itself.
(d) Genes.

14. What is substance, according to Locke?
(a) The history of a thing.
(b) The abstraction of a thing.
(c) The essence of a thing.
(d) Separation between things.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. What are modes, according to Locke?

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

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

5. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

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