Quiz: John Locke

When was John Locke born?

• 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England.
• 1689, near Bordeaux, France.
• 1533, near Bordeaux, France.
• 1712, Geneva, in what is now Switzerland.

When did John Locke die?

• 1704, Essex, England.
• 21 June 1527, Florence.
• 1626, London, of a chill caught stuffing a chicken with snow in an experiment.
• 1778, Ermenonville, France.

What is John Locke known for?

• Tabula rasa, the mind as blank at birth; natural rights to life, liberty, and property; and the right of revolution.
• The greatest happiness principle, the Panopticon prison design, and the felicific calculus for weighing pleasures and pains.
• Monads, the pre established harmony, the principle of sufficient reason, and the calculus priority dispute with Newton.
• The Social Contract and the general will, Emile on education, and the Confessions, the first modern autobiography.

Which school of thought was John Locke part of?

• Empiricism.
• Utilitarianism, its founder.
• Rationalism, in its most uncompromising form.
• Rationalism, its founder.

True or false: English thinker whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding made him the founder of British empiricism, and whose Two Treatises justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

• True
• False