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

2. It is stated that the author believes that men tend to misunderstand their _____.
(a) Posterity.
(b) Weakenesses.
(c) Strengths.
(d) Mission.

3. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?
(a) Models.
(b) Observation.
(c) Experiments.
(d) Experience.

4. Bacon begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.
(a) Representative.
(b) Master.
(c) Embodiment.
(d) Patron.

5. The fourth parts of the plan involves the application of _______.
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Inquiry.
(c) Observation.
(d) Motion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The work was presented in such a way that it was written in the native tongue for all but which group?

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

3. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.

4. Bacon rejects a certain type of reasoning because it is too _____ and independent of the empirical.

5. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?

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