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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 does Locke say perception creates?
(a) Experiences.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Language.

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

3. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) What the mind is.
(b) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(c) Where our beliefs come from.
(d) Why we should or should not believe certain things.

4. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A battlefield.
(b) A library.
(c) A blank slate.
(d) A cultural storehouse.

5. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Ontology.
(d) Comparative religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is substance, according to Locke?

3. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?

4. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

5. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define abstraction?

2. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Locke define retention?

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

(see the answer keys)

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