Answer: The answer is B, convey information.
According to the excerpt, the option that identifies an implicit meaning one could draw from it would be the second one: "Locke is unfamiliar with the term <em>idea</em>".
In the excerpt, Locke is not asking what Idea is nor is he being uncertain about the relationship between speculative and practical ideas. He seems to never heard it before and the exact meaning fades away.
That's why he asks what it represents and not its definition or for someone to repeat the explanation. He just needs an example to clarify the boundaries of the <em>idea's</em> meaning.
When we say chronological order, this is the type of organization wherein events are arranged according to the time they happened. Therefore, this would be useful to the writer in order to make the readers understand any happenings that occurred previously. The answer would be the second option.
