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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Relativist.
(b) Absolutist.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Pragmatic.

4. 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 know the world solely through the senses.
(c) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(d) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.

5. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are culturally relative.
(b) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(c) That they are questionable.
(d) That not everyone believes them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

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

4. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

5. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

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