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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?
(a) Utilitarianism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Historicism.

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(b) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(c) Envy is bound to the passions.
(d) Language is never more than self-referential.

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

4. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says that it is too wide a net.
(b) He says that it is a kettle of fish.
(c) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(d) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.

5. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(b) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(c) Because instincts are not moral.
(d) Because there is no room in the genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

2. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?

3. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say desires have in common?

5. What is substance, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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