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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 example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?
(a) The idea that man arose from apes through slow changes.
(b) The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
(c) The idea that God is infallible.
(d) The idea that things cannot simultaneously be and not be.

2. How would you characterize Locke's description of knowledge in his introduction?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Absolutist.
(d) Relativist.

3. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?
(a) Like other ideas, it fades unless it is renewed.
(b) Unlike other ideas, it remains constant if it is true.
(c) It creates freedom.
(d) It leads to marriage and commitment in acts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a category of complex ideas, according to Locke?

2. What is the limitation of understanding, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke say about this standard for whether an idea is innate?

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

5. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?

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