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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a power, according to Locke?
(a) Something that can make a change in the world.
(b) Something that liberates people from fate.
(c) Something that acts as fate for people.
(d) Something that moves things in natural cycles.

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Politics.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Innate knowledge.
(d) Reasons.

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

5. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.
(b) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(c) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(d) Combinations of simple ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

2. What does Locke's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?

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

5. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

(see the answer key)

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