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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Invent new ideas.
(b) Replace ideas with other ideas.
(c) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(d) Combine ideas.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

2. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

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

4. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

5. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define practical principles?

2. What arguments does Locke make against Descartes' philosophy?

3. How does Locke define abstraction?

4. What aspect of knowledge does Locke exclude from "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

5. What does Locke set out to do in Book II?

6. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

7. How does Locke use the concept of number in his discussion of primary qualities?

8. What is the difference between sensation and reflection, in Locke's account?

9. How does Locke define retention?

10. Describe Locke's account of the primary and secondary qualities of things.

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