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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. Bacon suggests that man should try to focus on their ___ powers.
(a) True.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Limited.
(d) God-given.

2. It is the ____ of power that caused angels to fall.
(a) Attainment.
(b) Lust.
(c) Transfer.
(d) Abuse.

3. The _____ way starts out hard but ends in "open country."
(a) Natural.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Instinctive.
(d) Scientific.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Science descended from debates held by the ______.

2. Bacon asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.

3. Often times the community was controlled by ______ rules.

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

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

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