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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say desires have in common?
(a) Unhappiness as a result.
(b) The ability to mitigate unease.
(c) A motivating force to alleviate discomfort.
(d) Ineffability.

2. How does Locke define love?
(a) Aspiring to improve oneself.
(b) Reflecting on something that causes delight.
(c) Mingling pleasure and pain.
(d) Seeking pleasure.

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

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

5. Which grammatical particle does Locke examine in detail?
(a) But.
(b) In.
(c) On.
(d) Under.

6. What is the effect of a passive power?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Transformation of matter.
(c) Determinism.
(d) Movement of matter.

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

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

9. 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 can make a change in the world.
(d) Something that moves things in natural cycles.

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

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

12. What does Locke's illustration show?
(a) That fate wears a human face.
(b) That hell is other people.
(c) That a man can be deceived about his relation with other men.
(d) That a man can be clear in will but unfree in action.

13. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?
(a) It leads to marriage and commitment in acts.
(b) Like other ideas, it fades unless it is renewed.
(c) Unlike other ideas, it remains constant if it is true.
(d) It creates freedom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?

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

3. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?

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

5. What does Locke say words refer to?

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