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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(b) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(c) Combinations of simple ideas.
(d) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.

3. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?
(a) A set of dispositions.
(b) A white piece of paper.
(c) A history of turmoil.
(d) A power keg.

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

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Envy is bound to the passions.
(b) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(c) Reason is closed to direct perception.
(d) Language is never more than self-referential.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?

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

5. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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