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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 retention allows us to do?
(a) Forget ideas.
(b) Store ideas.
(c) Evaluate ideas.
(d) Organize ideas.

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

3. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?
(a) Locke says that certain things are known a priori.
(b) Locke says that understanding is divine and God is up to the job of inquiry.
(c) Locke says that doubt is the eternal enemy of knowledge.
(d) Locke says that doubt is for science, not philosophy.

4. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?
(a) Combine ideas.
(b) Replace ideas with other ideas.
(c) Use ideas for practical purposes.
(d) Invent new ideas.

5. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?
(a) Historical narratives.
(b) Interactions.
(c) In the universe.
(d) Things themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define will?

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

3. What does Locke say justifies moral principles?

4. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?

5. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

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