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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) Limited.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) God-given.

2. Bacon went to work for which King of England?
(a) Henry.
(b) Richard.
(c) George.
(d) James.

3. Bacon refers to one's powers as being ____ and reasoning.
(a) Logic.
(b) Faith.
(c) Truth.
(d) Intuition.

4. Which Biblical person was condemned for illicit moral knowledge?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Eve.
(c) Adam.
(d) Judas.

5. The ancients looked only to the stars and as such became too focused on ____ and abstract meditation.
(a) Wit.
(b) Logic.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Astrology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon believes that the human mind easily misuses its ____ in many ways.

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

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

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

5. What is a "procemium?"

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