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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we know things.
(b) How the body registers knowledge.
(c) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(d) How we form beliefs.

4. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.
(b) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(c) It obligates people to constant conversation.
(d) It does not invalidate it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

2. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

3. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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

5. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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