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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 to use pure reason in thinking.
(d) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.

2. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(b) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?

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

3. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

4. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

5. What did Locke study first?

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