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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. It is better to try and fail rather than to make _____ on something that cannot work.
(a) Bets.
(b) Foolish decisions.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Professions.

2. What term does Bacon use to describe syllogism?
(a) The pot calling the kettle black.
(b) Garbage in, garbage out.
(c) Between a rock and a hard place.
(d) In one ear and out the other.

3. Bacon believes that the meeting between the two entities must return to its _______.
(a) Self.
(b) Original condition.
(c) Previous incarnation.
(d) Womb.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of history is ideal to build a foundation for philosophy?

2. How many parts are there to the work?

3. The modern ____ goes first from the senses to general propositions.

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

5. Part of the reason for the movement was to show that the knowledge in _____ was stagnant.

(see the answer key)

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