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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) Biologically.
(b) In a vacuum.
(c) Relative to the passions.
(d) As the result of evolution.

3. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.
(b) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(c) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(d) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.

4. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?
(a) Human beings.
(b) Grown men and women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children and idiost.

5. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Presentability.
(b) Universal consent.
(c) Variability.
(d) Translatability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

2. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

3. What qualities does Locke say things have?

4. How does Locke say ideas change over time?

5. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

(see the answer key)

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