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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 is the consequence of using words to refer to personal ideas, according to Locke?
(a) Madness.
(b) Unintelligibility.
(c) Art.
(d) Prophesy.

2. How does Locke say people should use language?
(a) In ways that undermine received truths.
(b) In ways that lead to interesting visions.
(c) In ways that express personality.
(d) In ways that can be understood.

3. Why does Locke say we cannot have an innate morality?
(a) Because innate ideas are impossible.
(b) Because there is no room in the genes.
(c) Because he demonstrates that morality is not instinctual.
(d) Because instincts are not moral.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

2. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?

3. What idea does Locke say we use when we define a horse?

4. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

7. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

9. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

10. How does Locke define words?

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