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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. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They are essential to the things themselves.
(b) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.
(c) They have no internal direction.
(d) They are the inertia of things.

2. What quality does Locke say innate principles lack?
(a) Variability.
(b) Translatability.
(c) Universal consent.
(d) Presentability.

3. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?
(a) Determinism.
(b) Will.
(c) Desire.
(d) Fate.

4. How does Locke use garlic to illustrate his argument about the qualities of things?
(a) The taste is different if it is cooked.
(b) Garlic has cleaning properties in addition to nutritional uses.
(c) Different cultures use it for different things.
(d) Garlic has many different stages of development.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe reflection?

2. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

3. What does Locke say retention allows us to do?

4. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

5. To what does Locke attribute the ability to create technology and to organize our environment?

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