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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?
(a) Our idea of derivation.
(b) Our idea of variety.
(c) Our idea of origins.
(d) Our idea of unity.

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

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

4. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?
(a) By meditating on the things.
(b) By performing experiments on the things.
(c) By analyzing our ideas of those things.
(d) By breaking things into their constituent parts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?

3. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?

4. How does Locke say people should use language?

5. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three ways in which people abuse words, in Locke's account?

2. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

3. Why are most words general, according to Locke?

4. What do we do when we define a word, in Locke's account?

5. What role does Locke attribute to God in forming man as a language-user?

6. What does Locke achieve by claiming that good and evil come from pleasure and pain?

7. What is the difference between love and desire, according to Locke?

8. How do we arrive at the essence of an idea?

9. What does Locke say is the only way to understand the properties of things?

10. How does Locke resolve the debate between determinists and libertarians?

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