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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 resolve the contradiction between people who believe in free will and people who do not?
(a) He says that the world has choices, even if people do not.
(b) He says that people have a choice whether to follow their wills.
(c) He says that there is indeterminism on a sub-atomic level, that allows for free choice.
(d) He says that determinism is determined in free choices in every moment.

2. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?
(a) Adult males only.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children and idiots.
(d) Angels.

3. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(b) As the mind's sensation of itself.
(c) As the engine for language.
(d) As the history of sense experiences.

4. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?
(a) Sense experiences.
(b) The mind itself.
(c) Genes.
(d) History.

5. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?
(a) It should be scientifically evaluated.
(b) It must be established anew each generation.
(c) It must be learned.
(d) It must be doubted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

2. What does Locke claim separates mankind from all other creatures on earth?

3. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?

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

5. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

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