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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, New Atlantis, A Work Unfinished (Introduction, Discovery of Bensalem, Meeting with Governor).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ancients looked only to the stars and as such became too focused on ____ and abstract meditation.
(a) Logic.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Wit.

2. The only way out of ____ is to build a plan of inquiry.
(a) Tyranny.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) The past.
(d) Ignorance.

3. What was left behind after the pillar broke apart?
(a) Pedestal.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Angel.
(d) Ark.

4. What is a "procemium?"
(a) Preface.
(b) Prefix.
(c) Postscript.
(d) Preliminary.

5. Ultimately, man is nature's _____.
(a) Servant.
(b) Opponent..
(c) Folly.
(d) Experiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. A person's examination of the world should involve true _____.

2. Which of the following was not offered to the sailors at this time?

3. When the pillar of light broke up it turned in to which of the following:

4. Of the philosophers attempt to amend simple human observation with ridiculous _____.

5. With clear ____, the intellect can become more powerful.

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