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

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

3. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?
(a) Science.
(b) Space.
(c) Time.
(d) Water.

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Collective unconscious.
(c) Memory.
(d) Senses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

2. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

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

4. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

5. Which is NOT a category of complex ideas, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the two kinds of ideas Locke describes.

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

3. What example does Locke use of natural principles?

4. In what way is knowledge limited, according to Locke?

5. In what way is understanding limited, according to Locke?

6. What is the difference between natural principles and innate principles?

7. What does Locke say happens if two people have the same idea about a thing?

8. How does Locke define practical principles?

9. How does Locke define retention?

10. How does Locke define abstraction?

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