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

2. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(b) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(c) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.
(d) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Locke define perception?

3. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

4. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?

5. How does Locke define complex ideas?

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