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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. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) Everyone would have to believe it.
(b) No one would be able to capture or limit it.
(c) It would have to be approved by a majority.
(d) It would be secret and unspoken.

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

3. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Relativist.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Absolutist.
(d) Pragmatic.

4. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Angels.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children and idiots.
(d) Adult males only.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

5. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Locke define abstraction?

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

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

5. What example does Locke use of natural principles?

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

7. How does Locke define retention?

8. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

9. What benefits do humans receive from understanding, according to Locke?

10. How does Locke define practical principles?

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