View a FREE sample

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 was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we form beliefs.
(b) How the body registers knowledge.
(c) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(d) How we know things.

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

3. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Primary qualities will not change.
(b) Secondary qualities will not change.
(c) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(d) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.

4. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Challenge them.
(b) Test them.
(c) Abandon them.
(d) Renew them.

5. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Self-aware.
(b) Complex.
(c) Basic.
(d) Incomplete.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?

2. What does Locke say perception creates?

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

4. Which is NOT a method Locke describes for forming a complex idea?

5. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 308 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample