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

2. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Presentability.
(b) Variability.
(c) Universal consent.
(d) Translatability.

3. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Comparative religion.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Epistemology.
(d) Ontology.

4. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?
(a) The uses they can be put to.
(b) The words that refer to them.
(c) The morality of them.
(d) The consequences of them.

5. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.
(b) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.
(c) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.
(d) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Locke describe experience?

5. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

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