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

2. Instead, men placed too much focus on their ____.
(a) False beliefs.
(b) Work.
(c) Art.
(d) Faith.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What years did the King serve England?

2. Human reasoning is _____.

3. Bacon begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.

4. Many things may be improved by using instruments of _____.

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

(see the answer key)

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