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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 does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?
(a) They are not totally different.
(b) Sensation provides material for reflection.
(c) They are mutually exclusive.
(d) Reflection works first.

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

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

4. What standard would an idea have to meet to be considered innate?
(a) Everyone would have to believe it.
(b) No one would be able to capture or limit it.
(c) It would have to be approved by a majority.
(d) It would be secret and unspoken.

5. What does reflection create ideas out of?
(a) History.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Language itself.
(d) The mind's own operations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

3. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?

4. What does Locke say is required for an idea to be innate?

5. What qualities does Locke say things have?

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