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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 say ideas change over time?
(a) They ossify.
(b) They loosen up.
(c) They solidify.
(d) They degrade.

2. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?
(a) Knowledge can only be known through language and symbols.
(b) People have different ideas of the terms in any proposition.
(c) Even instincts require reinforcement.
(d) The genes cannot be made to demonstrate the origins of knowledge.

3. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?
(a) He says that a thing's color can change in different light.
(b) He says that qualities can change upon reflection.
(c) He says that qualities can change in memory.
(d) He says that things' qualities can change depending on who you talk to.

4. What is a power, according to Locke?
(a) Something that liberates people from fate.
(b) Something that can make a change in the world.
(c) Something that moves things in natural cycles.
(d) Something that acts as fate for people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say we do with ideas?

2. How does Locke define will?

3. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?

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

5. How does Locke define 'idea'?

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