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

2. How many parts are there to the work?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

4. What is a "procemium?"
(a) Preliminary.
(b) Preface.
(c) Prefix.
(d) Postscript.

5. Those that ran the polity of science were ____.
(a) Blind.
(b) Uninformed.
(c) Dictators.
(d) Democratic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the end, the two sides ended up arguing over ______.

3. What adjective is used to describe this particular course of inquiry?

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

5. We must avoid our ____if we want to see the pattern of the world..

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