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

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

3. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Animals.
(b) Children and idiots.
(c) Adult males only.
(d) Angels.

4. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) Genes.
(b) The mind itself.
(c) History.
(d) Sense experiences.

5. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.
(b) He says that it is too wide a net.
(c) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(d) He says that it is a kettle of fish.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

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

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