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

2. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The words that refer to them.
(b) The uses they can be put to.
(c) The consequences of them.
(d) The morality of them.

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

4. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) To pin down the mystical origins of understanding.
(b) To define a unified theory of understanding.
(c) To reconcile the tension between modes of understanding.
(d) To break understanding into its parts.

5. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) Everyone would have to believe it.
(b) It would be secret and unspoken.
(c) It would have to be approved by a majority.
(d) No one would be able to capture or limit it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?

3. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?

4. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?

5. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

(see the answer key)

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