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

2. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are culturally relative.
(b) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(c) That not everyone believes them.
(d) That they are questionable.

3. Where does Locke say ideas come from?
(a) Experience.
(b) Senses.
(c) God.
(d) Inspiration.

4. How are primary qualities different from secondary qualities?
(a) Secondary qualities depend on something innate about the thing.
(b) Primary qualities are the unification of all the secondary qualities.
(c) Secondary qualities will not change.
(d) Primary qualities will not change.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?

2. How does Locke define love?

3. How does Locke define simple ideas?

4. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

5. What qualities does Locke say things have?

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