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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?
(a) They are not totally different.
(b) Reflection works first.
(c) They are mutually exclusive.
(d) Sensation provides material for reflection.

3. What did Locke study first?
(a) The weight of understanding.
(b) Differences in animal and human understanding.
(c) The mechanisms for measuring understanding.
(d) The origins of understanding.

4. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(b) It does not invalidate it.
(c) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.
(d) It obligates people to constant conversation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?

2. What qualities does Locke say things have?

3. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?

4. What examples of intuitive knowledge does Locke use?

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

(see the answer key)

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