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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Great Instauration.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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. Overall, philosophy was _____ but barren.
(a) Abundant.
(b) Fruitful.
(c) Disdained.
(d) Worshiped.

5. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."
(a) True understanding.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) A meeting of the minds.
(d) Intellect.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the same time, men tend to underestimate their _____.

3. It is important that man be able to gather clues from _____.

4. What is a "procemium?"

5. Instead, men placed too much focus on their ____.

(see the answer key)

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