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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke describe experience?
(a) The only foundation for knowledge.
(b) The consequence of knowledge.
(c) One of the ingredients of knowledge.
(d) The least important component in knowledge.

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

3. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) Whether ideas are innate.
(b) What the mind is.
(c) Whether ideas are moral.
(d) How understanding uses ideas.

4. Where do primary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Things themselves.
(b) Interactions.
(c) Experiences.
(d) They do not originate.

5. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?
(a) Envy is bound to the passions.
(b) Language is never more than self-referential.
(c) Compassion is removed from understanding.
(d) Reason is closed to direct perception.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which concept was beyond the sphere of Locke's inquiry?

2. How does Locke define perception?

3. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

4. How does Locke define complex ideas?

5. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define retention?

2. How is duration developed from simple ideas, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say happens if two people have the same idea about a thing?

4. What does Locke set out to do in Book II?

5. What does Locke say about the innateness of moral principles?

6. What aspect of knowledge does Locke exclude from "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

7. In what way is knowledge limited, according to Locke?

8. Describe Locke's account of the primary and secondary qualities of things.

9. How does Locke define abstraction?

10. What arguments does Locke make against innate knowledge?

(see the answer keys)

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