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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Envy is bound to the passions.
(b) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(c) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(d) Language is never more than self-referential.

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

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

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

6. 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) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(d) What the mind is.

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

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

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

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

11. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(b) Primary qualities will not change.
(c) Secondary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke describe the mind as?

2. How does Locke define 'idea'?

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

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

5. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?

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