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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1b, The Plan of the Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the process of reasoning probabilistically?
(a) Induction.
(b) Deduction.
(c) Adduction.
(d) Reduction.

2. What years did the King serve England?
(a) 1610-1639.
(b) 1601-1628.
(c) 1603-1625.
(d) 1616-1651.

3. Which of the following are said to have had no role except for in mechanics?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Inventors.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Mathematicians.

4. Bacon states that a new logic has a different _____ from the old logic.
(a) Aim.
(b) Destination.
(c) Method.
(d) Starting point.

5. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?
(a) Experiments.
(b) Logic.
(c) Observation.
(d) Investigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Biblical person was condemned for illicit moral knowledge?

2. What is another name for "The Great Instauration?"

3. Many things may be improved by using instruments of _____.

4. Bacon begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.

5. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.

(see the answer key)

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