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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are people who do not believe in free will called?
(a) Fatalists.
(b) Determinists.
(c) Relativists.
(d) Ontologists.
2. What does Locke say the increase of our intellectual powers follows?
(a) Standardization of terminology.
(b) Abstraction of ideas.
(c) Expansion of vocabulary.
(d) Simplification of ideas.
3. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?
(a) You know the design of the thing.
(b) You have the category of the thing.
(c) You possess the thing as an idea.
(d) You cease to see the thing.
4. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?
(a) Create feelings in others.
(b) Communicate any feeling.
(c) Make them refer to any ideas.
(d) Describe any experience.
5. 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.
6. What does Locke say is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?
(a) Debate.
(b) Reflection.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Experimentation.
7. What abuse does Locke say is typical of scholars?
(a) Using obscure words.
(b) Using poetic language.
(c) Using technical language.
(d) Using foreign languages.
8. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) An image.
(b) A prophecy.
(c) The next general word.
(d) A memory of pleasure or pain.
9. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?
(a) The divine intention in every thing.
(b) The chemical composition of the thing.
(c) The being-in-time of each thing.
(d) The properties that distinguish it from other similar things.
10. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?
(a) Makes men powerful.
(b) Makes men ambitious.
(c) Makes men satisfied.
(d) Makes men unhappy.
11. What happens to the man in the illustration?
(a) He is carried into another room while sleeping.
(b) He is given the ability to punish another man.
(c) He is told that someone he knows has died.
(d) He runs an experiment on another man.
12. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?
(a) It creates freedom.
(b) Like other ideas, it fades unless it is renewed.
(c) It leads to marriage and commitment in acts.
(d) Unlike other ideas, it remains constant if it is true.
13. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?
(a) Our idea of derivation.
(b) Our idea of unity.
(c) Our idea of origins.
(d) Our idea of variety.
14. Which school of philosophy divided essences into real and nominal?
(a) Aristotelians.
(b) Platonists.
(c) Spinozans.
(d) Thomists.
15. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?
(a) Complex modes of ideas.
(b) Morality.
(c) Variety.
(d) Number.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the effect of a passive power?
2. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?
3. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?
4. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?
5. Who is guilty of reification, according to Locke?
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