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

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

3. How does Locke define desire?
(a) The need to return to a previous bliss.
(b) The urgent need to merge with something outside the self.
(c) The projection of happiness on things outside the self.
(d) The force that moves the world.

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

5. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because instincts are not moral.
(b) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(c) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(d) Because there is no room in the genes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

3. What is substance, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

5. What does Locke say about the knowledge of how property rules should be established?

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