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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 ideas of morality come from?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Acts and punishments.
(c) Science and superstition.
(d) Gods and devils.

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

3. What are people who believe in human freedom called?
(a) Determinists.
(b) Fatalists.
(c) Libertarians.
(d) Relativists.

4. What does Locke use to illustrate the difference between freedom and fate?
(a) A sick man.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A sleeping man.
(d) A prisoner.

5. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?
(a) They are general words.
(b) They are essential ideas.
(c) They are complex ideas.
(d) They are simple ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can we talk about once we begin to abstract?

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

3. How does Locke define truth in an idea?

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

5. How does Locke describe pleasure and pain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Give an example of active powers.

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

5. What does Locke say is the difference between a free will and a free agent?

6. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

7. How does Locke define words?

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

9. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

10. How is love like memory, in Locke's account?

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