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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) Biologically.
(b) Relative to the passions.
(c) In a vacuum.
(d) As the result of evolution.

2. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?
(a) It cannot reckon things that cannot be perceived.
(b) We cannot turn it against itself.
(c) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.
(d) We cannot use it in religion or spirituality.

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Reasons.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Politics.
(d) Innate knowledge.

4. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Senses.
(b) God.
(c) Experience.
(d) Inspiration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

2. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

3. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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

5. What does Locke argue against in Chapter 2 of Book I?

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