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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 God gave man in order to fulfill his purpose?
(a) Images.
(b) Technology.
(c) Words.
(d) Weapons.

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

3. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?
(a) Acts and punishments.
(b) Pleasure and pain.
(c) Science and superstition.
(d) Gods and devils.

4. How does Locke define passive powers?
(a) They are the inertia of things.
(b) They are essential to the things themselves.
(c) They have no internal direction.
(d) They only exist when more than two things come into contact.

5. How does Locke define will?
(a) Searching for one's temperament.
(b) Following one's impulses.
(c) Letting fate make decisions.
(d) Acting in accord with one's preferences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke define love?

2. How does Locke define desire?

3. What do we have when an abstract idea cannot be broken down?

4. How does Locke define the difference between freedom and will?

5. What effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

5. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

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

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

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

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

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