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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. Bacon lays out a plan for organizing which of the following?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Scientific inquiry.
(c) Books.
(d) Men.

2. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."
(a) A meeting of the minds.
(b) True understanding.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Intellect.

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

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

5. The author states that everything should be observed from the _____ to the human body.
(a) Earth's core.
(b) Bottom of the sea.
(c) Smallest insect.
(d) Heavens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ordinary logic, _____ reigns.

2. Which is not one of the parts of the plan?

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

4. Science descended from debates held by the ______.

5. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?

(see the answer key)

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