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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(b) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(c) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

2. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Faith.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Morality.
(d) Knowledge.

3. What does Locke say number indicate about a thing?
(a) That it has the ability to replicate itself.
(b) How frequently it occurs.
(c) That it cannot be split without being a different thing.
(d) That it takes on a different shape in the aggregate.

4. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?
(a) Freedom and fate.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) Pain and pleasure.
(d) Cause and effect.

5. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Contradict an idea.
(b) Deduce a meaning from a category.
(c) See a concept in a sense experience.
(d) Turn an idea into a representative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is substance, according to Locke?

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

3. How does Locke define 'idea'?

4. How does Locke define simple ideas?

5. What does Locke's illustration show?

(see the answer key)

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