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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 show about the ideas people claim are innate?
(a) That they are determined by cultural forces.
(b) That they are questionable.
(c) That not everyone believes them.
(d) That they are culturally relative.

2. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They have no internal direction.
(b) They are essential to the things themselves.
(c) They are the inertia of things.
(d) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.

3. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?
(a) Grains of sand.
(b) Trees in a forest.
(c) Our bodies and minds.
(d) Flocks of geese.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define complex ideas?

2. What does Locke describe in Book II?

3. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

4. Where do ideas come from, according to Locke?

5. What is substance, according to Locke?

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