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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 did Locke study first?
(a) The weight of understanding.
(b) Differences in animal and human understanding.
(c) The origins of understanding.
(d) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.

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

3. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?
(a) Bringing two simple ideas together without uniting them.
(b) Abstracting from a simple idea into a general idea.
(c) Deriving an idea from a sense experience.
(d) Combing several simple ideas into a new, complex idea.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be learned.
(b) It must be established anew each generation.
(c) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(d) It must be doubted.

5. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.
(b) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(c) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(d) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

2. How does Locke define complex ideas?

3. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?

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

5. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Locke define practical principles?

3. What arguments does Locke make against innate knowledge?

4. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

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

6. How does Locke define retention?

7. How does Locke say ideas come to us?

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

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

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

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