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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 effect of a passive power?
(a) Movement of matter.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Transformation of matter.

2. How does Locke try to look at understanding?
(a) In a vacuum.
(b) Relative to the passions.
(c) Biologically.
(d) As the result of evolution.

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

4. How does Locke describe reflection?
(a) As the engine for language.
(b) As the patterns sense experiences make.
(c) As the history of sense experiences.
(d) As the mind's sensation of itself.

5. What does Locke describe the mind as?
(a) A battlefield.
(b) A library.
(c) A blank slate.
(d) A cultural storehouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Locke define desire?

3. What does Locke show about the ideas people claim are innate?

4. What happens to a particular idea when you practice abstraction?

5. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

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