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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 is a philosopher's primary method, in Locke's account?
(a) Reflection.
(b) Experimentation.
(c) Debate.
(d) Analysis.

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

3. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?
(a) Recall the steps by which truth was arrived at.
(b) Demolish opponents' arguments.
(c) Arrive at truth.
(d) Clarify meanings of terms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say is the purpose of language?

2. What is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?

3. What is a power, according to Locke?

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

5. How does Locke define passive powers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

5. Give an example of active powers.

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

7. How does Locke define words?

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

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

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

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