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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, New Atlantis, A Work Unfinished (Introduction, Discovery of Bensalem, Meeting with Governor).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Biblical person was condemned for illicit moral knowledge?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Eve.
(c) Judas.
(d) Adam.

2. The people realize that once they got as close as ____ yards they could not move.
(a) 50.
(b) 60.
(c) 100.
(d) 75.

3. In ordinary logic, _____ reigns.
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Domination.
(c) Synergy.
(d) Cooperation.

4. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.
(a) Logic.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Observation.
(d) Understanding.

5. It is the ____ of power that caused angels to fall.
(a) Transfer.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Attainment.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The sixth part refers to the _______ course of inquiry.

3. The modern ____ goes first from the senses to general propositions.

4. Those that ran the polity of science were ____.

5. Which of the following was not offered to the sailors at this time?

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