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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 cannot use it in religion or spirituality.
(d) We do not always know how to distinguish it from faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

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

3. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

4. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

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

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