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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 justifies moral principles?
(a) Reasons.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Politics.
(d) Innate knowledge.

2. How does Locke define complex ideas?
(a) Unresolved ideas out of which simple ideas come.
(b) Simple ideas that vary based on definitions.
(c) The field of experience that inspires ideas.
(d) Combinations of simple ideas.

3. What are people who believe in human freedom called?
(a) Relativists.
(b) Fatalists.
(c) Libertarians.
(d) Determinists.

4. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?
(a) Language.
(b) Culture.
(c) God and religion.
(d) Good and evil.

5. What are modes, according to Locke?
(a) Opposites.
(b) Halves of a paradox.
(c) Methods of describing things.
(d) Combinations of substances.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Locke say an object's qualities can change?

4. What does Locke say is his purpose in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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

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