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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 the mind is before it has experiences?
(a) A power keg.
(b) A white piece of paper.
(c) A history of turmoil.
(d) A set of dispositions.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?
(a) God.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) The genes.
(d) The senses.

8. How does Locke define 'idea'?
(a) The object of understanding.
(b) The purpose of understanding.
(c) The source of understanding.
(d) The result of understanding.

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

10. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?
(a) Children and idiost.
(b) Men.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Grown men and women.

11. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) Chairs.
(b) History.
(c) People.
(d) Nature.

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

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

14. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.
(b) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(c) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.
(d) He says that qualities can change in memory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

2. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

4. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

5. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?

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