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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. How does Locke resolve the contradiction between people who believe in free will and people who do not?
(a) He says that there is indeterminism on a sub-atomic level, that allows for free choice.
(b) He says that the world has choices, even if people do not.
(c) He says that people have a choice whether to follow their wills.
(d) He says that determinism is determined in free choices in every moment.

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

3. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?
(a) The idea of nature.
(b) The idea of animal.
(c) The idea of human superiority.
(d) The idea of God.

4. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?
(a) Our idea of unity.
(b) Our idea of derivation.
(c) Our idea of origins.
(d) Our idea of variety.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?

2. What defines a philosophical usage of a word, according to Locke?

3. How does Locke define love?

4. Where do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?

5. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are most words general, according to Locke?

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

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

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

5. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

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

7. What do we do when we define a word, in Locke's account?

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

9. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

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