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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 16-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?
(a) Politics.
(b) Reasons.
(c) Innate knowledge.
(d) Mysteries.

2. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that God is infallible.
(b) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.
(c) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.
(d) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.

3. What is the effect of a passive power?
(a) Determinism.
(b) Transformation of matter.
(c) Movement of matter.
(d) Freedom.

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

5. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Combinations of substances.
(b) Methods of describing things.
(c) Opposites.
(d) Halves of a paradox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What limitation does Locke describe in human faculties?

3. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?

4. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke say desires have in common?

(see the answer key)

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