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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we know things.
(b) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(c) How the body registers knowledge.
(d) How we form beliefs.

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

4. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?
(a) He says that it is a kettle of fish.
(b) He says it is a bird of a different color.
(c) He says that it is too wide a net.
(d) He says that it is too high a hurdle to pass.

5. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?
(a) Why some beliefs are better than others.
(b) Where our beliefs come from.
(c) Why we should or should not believe certain things.
(d) What the mind is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?

2. How does Locke define passive powers?

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

4. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

5. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

(see the answer key)

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