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

2. Human reasoning is _____.
(a) Purposeful.
(b) Flawed.
(c) Divine.
(d) Premature.

3. Bacon asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.
(a) Universal.
(b) Trinitarian.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Lutheran.

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

5. Part of the reason for the movement was to show that the knowledge in _____ was stagnant.
(a) The Scientific Community.
(b) Europe.
(c) The Church.
(d) The public's consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."

2. Other forms of thinking may start out being easier but will most likely end up in ____ places.

3. The only way out of ____ is to build a plan of inquiry.

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

5. Bacon refers to one's powers as being ____ and reasoning.

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