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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke define 'idea'?
(a) The result of understanding.
(b) The object of understanding.
(c) The purpose of understanding.
(d) The source of understanding.

2. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) Genes.
(b) History.
(c) The mind itself.
(d) Sense experiences.

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

4. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) It would be secret and unspoken.
(b) No one would be able to capture or limit it.
(c) It would have to be approved by a majority.
(d) Everyone would have to believe it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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

3. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

4. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

5. Where does Locke say ideas come from?

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