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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Innate knowledge.
(c) Politics.
(d) Reasons.

4. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The consequences of them.
(b) The uses they can be put to.
(c) The morality of them.
(d) The words that refer to them.

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Senses.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

2. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

5. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

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