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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. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) Chairs.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) People.

2. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Complex.
(b) Basic.
(c) Self-aware.
(d) Incomplete.

3. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities will not change.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Primary qualities will not change.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

3. What is substance, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say perception creates?

5. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?

(see the answer key)

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