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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Aspire to them.
(b) Doubt and hate.
(c) Name and organize them.
(d) Eat and digest them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

3. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

4. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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

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