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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?
(a) How we form beliefs.
(b) How the spirit reacts to knowledge.
(c) How we know things.
(d) How the body registers knowledge.

2. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It obligates people to constant conversation.
(b) It does not invalidate it.
(c) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.
(d) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say must be learned along with ideas?

2. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

4. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

5. Where does understanding originate, according to Locke?

(see the answer key)

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