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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 illustration show?
(a) That hell is other people.
(b) That fate wears a human face.
(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.

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

3. 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 advocated experiments in free will.
(d) He proposed different ways to tempt fate.

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

5. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?
(a) The chemical composition of the thing.
(b) The being-in-time of each thing.
(c) The properties that distinguish it from other similar things.
(d) The divine intention in every thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?

4. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?

5. What does Locke say is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

4. Give an example of active powers.

5. What problem is Locke trying to address with his discussion of identity in consciousness and identity in body?

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

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

8. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

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

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

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