An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Test | Final Test - Easy

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the man in the illustration?
(a) He runs an experiment on another man.
(b) He is given the ability to punish another man.
(c) He is told that someone he knows has died.
(d) He is carried into another room while sleeping.

3. What abuse does Locke say is typical of scholars?
(a) Using foreign languages.
(b) Using obscure words.
(c) Using technical language.
(d) Using poetic language.

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

5. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(b) Because instincts are not moral.
(c) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(d) Because there is no room in the genes.

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

7. What does Locke describe as an abuse of words?
(a) Inventing meanings for words.
(b) Using words incorrectly deliberately.
(c) Using words to insult people.
(d) Using words without clear meaning.

8. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?
(a) The chemical composition of the thing.
(b) The divine intention in every thing.
(c) The being-in-time of each thing.
(d) The properties that distinguish it from other similar things.

9. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?
(a) Essences of things.
(b) Things in general.
(c) Particular things.
(d) The context for things.

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

11. What does Locke say the increase of our intellectual powers follows?
(a) Simplification of ideas.
(b) Expansion of vocabulary.
(c) Standardization of terminology.
(d) Abstraction of ideas.

12. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Unintelligible.
(c) Clear and powerful.
(d) Unstructured.

13. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?
(a) Locke says that there is too little room for interpretation in simple ideas.
(b) Locke says that most words are general.
(c) Locke says that simple ideas are too pervasive.
(d) Locke says that most simple ideas are too unspecific.

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

15. What does Locke say is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Debate.
(d) Reflection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?

2. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?

3. What does Locke say desires have in common?

4. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?

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

(see the answer keys)

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