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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 use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?
(a) Walnuts look different than grown walnut trees.
(b) Crushed walnuts will look different than whole walnuts.
(c) Walnuts are different at different stages of their development.
(d) Walnuts are seeds for trees but food for animals.

2. What do we need to do with ideas over time, according to Locke?
(a) Challenge them.
(b) Abandon them.
(c) Test them.
(d) Renew them.

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

4. What does Locke describe in Book II?
(a) What the mind is.
(b) Whether ideas are innate.
(c) How understanding uses ideas.
(d) Whether ideas are moral.

5. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?
(a) Heat.
(b) Will or volition.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are modes, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?

3. How does Locke characterize perception?

4. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

5. What are people who do not believe in free will called?

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