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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 say ideas change over time?
(a) They loosen up.
(b) They ossify.
(c) They solidify.
(d) They degrade.

2. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?
(a) The idea of innate knowledge.
(b) The idea of transubstantiation.
(c) The idea of cultural relativism.
(d) The idea of original sin.

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

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

5. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Combinations of substances.
(b) Halves of a paradox.
(c) Opposites.
(d) Methods of describing things.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?

4. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

5. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

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

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

6. How does Locke define retention?

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

8. How does Locke define discerning?

9. Describe Locke's account of the primary and secondary qualities of things.

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

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