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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) God.
(c) Sensation.
(d) The mind.

2. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?
(a) Flocks of geese.
(b) Grains of sand.
(c) Trees in a forest.
(d) Our bodies and minds.

3. What does Locke say we use when we define a word?
(a) A memory of pleasure or pain.
(b) An image.
(c) The next general word.
(d) A prophecy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?

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. Why don't most words refer to simple ideas, in Locke's account?

5. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

6. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

8. How do we arrive at the essence of an idea?

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

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

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