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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 is the contemporary name for Locke's field of inquiry?
(a) Ontology.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Comparative religion.

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

3. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?
(a) He proposed different ways to tempt fate.
(b) He demonstrated the inevitability of free choice.
(c) He advocated experiments in free will.
(d) He proposed a third position.

4. What consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?
(a) It means that man has to devise better tools for experimenting.
(b) It limits the fields in which we can know anything.
(c) It obligates people to constant conversation.
(d) It does not invalidate it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke describe the work principles do?

2. What does Locke say is another word for retention?

3. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?

4. How does Locke define desire?

5. For whom does Locke say national principles are natural?

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