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

2. Bacon rejects a certain type of reasoning because it is too _____ and independent of the empirical.
(a) Confused.
(b) Deliberate.
(c) Changeable.
(d) Rickety.

3. The sixth part refers to the _______ course of inquiry.
(a) Legitimate.
(b) Sensible.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Illegitimate.

4. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?
(a) Senses.
(b) Nature.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Phenomena.

5. Bacon asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.
(a) Trinitarian.
(b) Universal.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Unitarian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bacon states that a new logic has a different _____ from the old logic.

3. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.

4. Bacon states that people tend lean toward false and hasty ______.

5. The first part is referred to as being ______ outlined.

(see the answer key)

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