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

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

3. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Plato.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Plotinus.
(d) Aristotle.

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

5. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) Relative to the passions.
(b) Biologically.
(c) In a vacuum.
(d) As the result of evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

3. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

4. Discerning is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

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