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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 do pleasure and pain come from, according to Locke?
(a) History.
(b) The mind.
(c) Sensation.
(d) God.

2. How does Locke define desire?
(a) The urgent need to merge with something outside the self.
(b) The force that moves the world.
(c) The projection of happiness on things outside the self.
(d) The need to return to a previous bliss.

3. What does Locke's discussion of number lead into a discussion of?
(a) Constructing simple modes.
(b) Constructing complex modes.
(c) Reflecting on numbers.
(d) Seeing points of view.

4. What would happen if words referred to particular things, in Locke's opinion?
(a) No one would understand each other's vocabulary.
(b) There would have to be a word for each thing.
(c) Everyone would need to be an even larger language for classes of things.
(d) No one would know that classes of things existed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the philosopher's most important job, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke use to illustrate the difference between freedom and fate?

4. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?

5. What are all words generated by, in Locke's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give an example of active powers.

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

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

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

5. How does Locke define words?

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

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

8. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

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

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