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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 handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.
(b) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.
(c) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.
(d) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.

2. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?
(a) Language.
(b) Envy.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Understanding.

3. What does Locke say we do with ideas?
(a) Eat and digest them.
(b) Doubt and hate.
(c) Name and organize them.
(d) Aspire to them.

4. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) In a vacuum.
(b) Biologically.
(c) As the result of evolution.
(d) Relative to the passions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

4. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?

5. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

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