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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. What does Locke's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?
(a) Seeing points of view.
(b) Constructing complex modes.
(c) Constructing simple modes.
(d) Reflecting on numbers.

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

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

4. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?
(a) Freedom is the ability to act; will is a type of power.
(b) Freedom is the ability to let an internal power dictate one's actions; will is the source of the internal power.
(c) Freedom is riding light in the harness; will is the engine for progress.
(d) Freedom is the ability to act; will is the freedom to choose.

5. How does Locke resolve the contradiction between people who believe in free will and people who do not?
(a) He says that determinism is determined in free choices in every moment.
(b) He says that the world has choices, even if people do not.
(c) He says that people have a choice whether to follow their wills.
(d) He says that there is indeterminism on a sub-atomic level, that allows for free choice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of a passive power?

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

3. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

4. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?

5. What is a power, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Locke say our conception of 'number' comes from?

2. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

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

4. Who does Locke say is guilty of these abuses?

5. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

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

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

9. What does Locke say is the danger in man's freedom to use words however he likes?

10. How does Locke suggest philosophers curb the abuse of words?

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