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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. Overall, philosophy was _____ but barren.
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Abundant.
(c) Disdained.
(d) Worshiped.

2. The first part of the work is to equip the intellect to do which of the following?
(a) Be rebuilt.
(b) Move forward.
(c) Process information.
(d) Question itself.

3. It is better to try and fail rather than to make _____ on something that cannot work.
(a) Professions.
(b) Bets.
(c) Foolish decisions.
(d) Assumptions.

4. The only way out of ____ is to build a plan of inquiry.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) The past.
(d) Tyranny.

5. We need methods that can discover causes and deliver philosophy's first:
(a) Fruit.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Breath.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.

4. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.

5. Of the philosophers attempt to amend simple human observation with ridiculous _____.

(see the answer key)

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