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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. Bacon suggests that man should try to focus on their ___ powers.
(a) True.
(b) God-given.
(c) Limited.
(d) Inevitable.

2. In the beginning of the work, sailors departed from which country?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Peru.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

3. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.
(a) Specific.
(b) Questionably.
(c) Provisionally.
(d) Disjointed.

4. The author states that the work is only a beginning that developing this philosophy is starting the real _____ of the human race.
(a) Foundation.
(b) Genus.
(c) Business.
(d) Humanity.

5. The governor informs the sailors that they would use the island's _____ to provide ship repair.
(a) Materials.
(b) Craftsmen.
(c) Trade relations.
(d) Revenues.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is better to try and fail rather than to make _____ on something that cannot work.

2. Which of the following was delivered to the ship by a small greeting party?

3. What term does Bacon use to describe syllogism?

4. The sailors communicated with the islanders in which language?

5. Which of the following are said to have had no role except for in mechanics?

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