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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?
(a) You have the category of the thing.
(b) You know the design of the thing.
(c) You possess the thing as an idea.
(d) You cease to see the thing.

2. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?
(a) Freedom and fate.
(b) Pain and pleasure.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) Cause and effect.

3. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?
(a) They are complex ideas.
(b) They are essential ideas.
(c) They are simple ideas.
(d) They are general words.

4. Which school of philosophy divided essences into real and nominal?
(a) Thomists.
(b) Platonists.
(c) Aristotelians.
(d) Spinozans.

5. How does Locke define desire?
(a) The force that moves the world.
(b) The projection of happiness on things outside the self.
(c) The need to return to a previous bliss.
(d) The urgent need to merge with something outside the self.

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

7. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?
(a) Fate.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Desire.
(d) Will.

8. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Faith.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Morality.

9. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?
(a) Freedom is the ability to act; will is a type of power.
(b) Freedom is riding light in the harness; will is the engine for progress.
(c) Freedom is the ability to act; will is the freedom to choose.
(d) Freedom is the ability to let an internal power dictate one's actions; will is the source of the internal power.

10. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?
(a) History.
(b) The mind.
(c) God.
(d) Sensation.

11. What does Locke use to illustrate the difference between freedom and fate?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A sick man.
(c) A sleeping man.
(d) A prisoner.

12. How does Locke say people should use language?
(a) In ways that express personality.
(b) In ways that undermine received truths.
(c) In ways that lead to interesting visions.
(d) In ways that can be understood.

13. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?
(a) Words used in court.
(b) Words used in diplomacy.
(c) Words used in politics.
(d) Words used in everyday communication.

14. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?
(a) The idea of nature.
(b) The idea of human superiority.
(c) The idea of animal.
(d) The idea of God.

15. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?
(a) They are innate.
(b) They are divine.
(c) They are determined.
(d) They are arbitrary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?

2. What does Locke say is the purpose of language?

3. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?

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

5. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?

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