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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. Human reasoning is _____.
(a) Purposeful.
(b) Divine.
(c) Flawed.
(d) Premature.

2. This is accomplished through the use of ______.
(a) Devices.
(b) Experiments.
(c) Hypotheses.
(d) Experience.

3. Bacon asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.
(a) Universal.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Trinitarian.
(d) Unitarian.

4. How many of the sailors were sick and required medical attention?
(a) 17.
(b) 28.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

5. In ordinary logic, _____ reigns.
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Synergy.
(c) Domination.
(d) Syllogism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.

2. It is stated that the author believes that men tend to misunderstand their _____.

3. The text or references books of the Bible that had not yet been written such as _____'s epistles.

4. Other forms of thinking may start out being easier but will most likely end up in ____ places.

5. In the beginning of the work, sailors departed from which country?

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