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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 claim is Locke attacking in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?
(a) The claim that people can merge compassion and reason.
(b) The claim that people know the world solely through the senses.
(c) The claim that people can introspect into understanding.
(d) The claim to use pure reason in thinking.

2. How does Locke characterize perception?
(a) Self-aware.
(b) Complex.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Basic.

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

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

5. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) Divine will.
(b) The mathematics of probabilities.
(c) The inexorable shape of history.
(d) Causal necessity in nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?

3. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

4. What are people who believe in human freedom called?

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

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