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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 example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
(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 God is infallible.

2. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) The mathematics of probabilities.
(b) Divine will.
(c) Causal necessity in nature.
(d) The inexorable shape of history.

3. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) God and religion.
(c) Language.
(d) Culture.

4. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Gods and devils.
(c) Acts and punishments.
(d) Science and superstition.

5. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?
(a) They form the instincts.
(b) They are the basis of innate knowledge.
(c) They do not constitute innate knowledge.
(d) They must be un-learned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are modes, according to Locke?

2. What is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?

3. How does Locke define will?

4. What idea does NOT come from sensation, according to Locke?

5. What are people who believe in human freedom called?

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