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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1b, The Plan of the Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is from the _____ of our causes that are planned fail.
(a) Dissolution.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Absolution.

2. Many things may be improved by using instruments of _____.
(a) Fellowship.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Logic.
(d) God.

3. Which is not one of the parts of the plan?
(a) The Ladder of the Intellect.
(b) Division of Sciences.
(c) History of Philosophy.
(d) The New Philosophy.

4. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?
(a) Models.
(b) Experience.
(c) Observation.
(d) Experiments.

5. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.
(a) Faith.
(b) Souls.
(c) Logic.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon believes that the meeting between the two entities must return to its _______.

2. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?

3. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.

4. The new logic is designed to command active ____.

5. Bacon lays out a plan for organizing which of the following?

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