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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 define truth in an idea?
(a) The truth is self-evident.
(b) Proof can be shown mathematically.
(c) An idea corresponds to the world.
(d) Educated people can see the truth.

2. How does Locke define love?
(a) Mingling pleasure and pain.
(b) Reflecting on something that causes delight.
(c) Aspiring to improve oneself.
(d) Seeking pleasure.

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

4. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?
(a) It leads to marriage and commitment in acts.
(b) Unlike other ideas, it remains constant if it is true.
(c) It creates freedom.
(d) Like other ideas, it fades unless it is renewed.

5. What does Locke say men have freedom to do, in terms of language?
(a) Communicate any feeling.
(b) Describe any experience.
(c) Create feelings in others.
(d) Make them refer to any ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of a passive power?

2. What consequence does Locke describe if there were individual words for each thing?

3. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

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

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

9. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

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

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