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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

2. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

4. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say about sensations experienced in the womb?

4. How does Locke use the concept of number in his discussion of primary qualities?

5. Describe the two kinds of ideas Locke describes.

6. How does Locke define practical principles?

7. What does Locke mean when he says that the mind is a blank slate?

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

9. How does Locke define discerning?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 2

What was the historical effect of Locke's philosophy? What preceded it, and what proceeded from it? What historical development can Locke's work be seen as a part of? Describe his place in that development.

Essay Topic 3

Which was more important in Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," the actual terminology Locke uses for breaking knowledge down into parts, or the concept that epistemology liberates people from the concepts of instinctual knowledge of concepts like right and wrong?

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