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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(b) That they are questionable.
(c) That they are culturally relative.
(d) That not everyone believes them.

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

3. How does Locke define simple ideas?
(a) They can only be seen in behavior.
(b) They cannot be built upon.
(c) They cannot be broken down into parts.
(d) They cannot be presented in language.

4. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Innate knowledge.
(b) Reasons.
(c) Politics.
(d) Mysteries.

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

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

7. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?
(a) Perception.
(b) Reason.
(c) Sensitivity.
(d) Science.

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

9. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Correct one's ideas.
(b) Distinguish between things.
(c) Evaluate the propriety of things.
(d) Test an idea's truth value.

10. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Halves of a paradox.
(b) Combinations of substances.
(c) Methods of describing things.
(d) Opposites.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define complex ideas?

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?

3. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

4. How does Locke characterize perception?

5. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

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