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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?
(a) Economies would remain simple.
(b) Trade would be impossible.
(c) Knowledge would be impeded.
(d) Politics would be chaotic.

4. What is Locke really discussing in his discussion of pleasure and pain?
(a) Number.
(b) Morality.
(c) Variety.
(d) Complex modes of ideas.

5. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?
(a) One.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Zero.
(d) Ultimate variety.

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

7. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?
(a) Prophesy.
(b) Madness.
(c) Unintelligibility.
(d) Art.

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

9. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?
(a) He demonstrated the inevitability of free choice.
(b) He proposed a third position.
(c) He proposed different ways to tempt fate.
(d) He advocated experiments in free will.

10. 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.

11. What branch of philosophy derives from Locke's ideas about pain and pleasure?
(a) Historicism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Utilitarianism.
(d) Socialism.

12. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?
(a) Luck.
(b) Will or volition.
(c) Heat.
(d) Gravity.

13. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?
(a) Acts and punishments.
(b) Pleasure and pain.
(c) Science and superstition.
(d) Gods and devils.

14. How does Locke define will?
(a) Acting in accord with one's preferences.
(b) Searching for one's temperament.
(c) Letting fate make decisions.
(d) Following one's impulses.

15. What is reification?
(a) Seeing words as money.
(b) Seeing words as objects.
(c) Seeing words as things to be exchanged.
(d) Seeing words as people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we have when an abstract idea cannot be broken down?

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

3. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?

4. What does Locke say words refer to?

5. What does Locke say the increase of our intellectual powers follows?

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