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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which predecessor is Locke attacking with his discussion of understanding?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Milton.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Erasmus.

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

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That not everyone believes them.
(b) That they are culturally relative.
(c) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(d) That they are questionable.

4. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It must be learned.
(b) It must be doubted.
(c) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(d) It must be established anew each generation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

3. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

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

5. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

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