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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 the increase of our intellectual powers follows?
(a) Expansion of vocabulary.
(b) Abstraction of ideas.
(c) Standardization of terminology.
(d) Simplification of ideas.

2. What does Locke say about the form of signs and words?
(a) They are innate.
(b) They are determined.
(c) They are arbitrary.
(d) They are divine.

3. How does Locke define the essence of a thing?
(a) The being-in-time of each thing.
(b) The divine intention in every thing.
(c) The properties that distinguish it from other similar things.
(d) The chemical composition of the thing.

4. What does Locke say words refer to?
(a) Experiences of pleasure and pain.
(b) Inner ideas.
(c) Plants and animals.
(d) Things in the world.

5. What makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?
(a) Causal necessity in nature.
(b) The inexorable shape of history.
(c) The mathematics of probabilities.
(d) Divine will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What modern movement did Locke prefigure in his arguments about philosophical language?

2. What is the effect of a passive power?

3. What is the limit toward which our idea of number extends, according to Locke?

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

5. How does Locke define will?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Locke define words?

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

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

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

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

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

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