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

2. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(b) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

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

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

5. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?
(a) It cannot reckon things that cannot be perceived.
(b) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.
(c) We cannot use it in religion or spirituality.
(d) We cannot turn it against itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is substance, according to Locke?

2. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

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

5. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Locke define abstraction?

3. How does Locke define practical principles?

4. What arguments does Locke make against innate knowledge?

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

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

7. What does Locke mean when he says that the mind is a blank slate?

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

9. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

10. How does Locke say ideas come to us?

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