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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?
(a) Science.
(b) Sensitivity.
(c) Perception.
(d) Reason.

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

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

4. How does Locke describe the work principles do?
(a) They guide actions.
(b) They determine laws.
(c) They capture experiences.
(d) They define morals.

5. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?
(a) It must be believed by everyone.
(b) No objections should exist to it.
(c) There can only be one explanation for it.
(d) It cannot be arrived at through sensory means.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

3. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

4. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?

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

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