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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 type of history is ideal to build a foundation for philosophy?
(a) Empirical.
(b) Natural.
(c) Divine.
(d) Revised.

2. What years did the King serve England?
(a) 1616-1651.
(b) 1601-1628.
(c) 1603-1625.
(d) 1610-1639.

3. Often times the community was controlled by ______ rules.
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Unenforceable.
(c) Disorganized.
(d) No.

4. A person's examination of the world should involve true _____.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Science.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Effort.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. We need methods that can discover causes and deliver philosophy's first:

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

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

4. Instead, men placed too much focus on their ____.

5. Bacon rejects a certain type of reasoning because it is too _____ and independent of the empirical.

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