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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) Reduction.
(d) Adduction.

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

3. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.
(a) Philosophies.
(b) Schools of thought.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Phenomena.

4. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Logic.
(c) Observation.
(d) Intellect.

5. If man was able to focus on these powers, he would be able to master which of the following?
(a) Others.
(b) Nature.
(c) The Universe.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are said to have had no role except for in mechanics?

2. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?

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

4. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.

5. Since the observer is ____, he must look to history for similar observations.

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