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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 say we use when we define a word?
(a) A prophecy.
(b) An image.
(c) A memory of pleasure or pain.
(d) The next general word.

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

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

4. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?
(a) No one would know that classes of things existed.
(b) No one would understand each other's vocabulary.
(c) There would have to be a word for each thing.
(d) Everyone would need to be an even larger language for classes of things.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?

3. Which grammatical particle does Locke examine in detail?

4. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?

5. How has God formed man, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where do the notions of good and evil come from, in Locke's opinion?

6. Give an example of active powers.

7. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

8. How does Locke define power, in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

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

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

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