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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 are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities will not change.
(b) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(c) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(d) Primary qualities will not change.

2. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?
(a) A history of turmoil.
(b) A white piece of paper.
(c) A power keg.
(d) A set of dispositions.

3. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The only foundation for knowledge.
(b) The consequence of knowledge.
(c) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(d) The least important component in knowledge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

2. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?

3. What did Locke study first?

4. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Locke say about sensations experienced in the womb?

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

3. What arguments does Locke make against innate knowledge?

4. What does Locke say about the innateness of moral principles?

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

6. How does Locke define abstraction?

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

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

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

10. How does Locke define discerning?

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