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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?
(a) History.
(b) People.
(c) Nature.
(d) Chairs.

2. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?
(a) Evaluate ideas.
(b) Forget ideas.
(c) Organize ideas.
(d) Store ideas.

3. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Name and organize them.
(b) Aspire to them.
(c) Doubt and hate.
(d) Eat and digest them.

4. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.
(b) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.
(c) The idea that God is infallible.
(d) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.

5. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(b) Because instincts are not moral.
(c) Because there is no room in the genes.
(d) Because innate ideas are impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say each distinct idea is?

3. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?

4. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

5. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?

(see the answer key)

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