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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2b, New Atlantis, a Work Unfinished (Conversation with Governor continued, Conversation with Joabim).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This is accomplished through the use of ______.
(a) Experiments.
(b) Devices.
(c) Hypotheses.
(d) Experience.

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

3. Bacon begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.
(a) Representative.
(b) Embodiment.
(c) Master.
(d) Patron.

4. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."
(a) Philosophy.
(b) A meeting of the minds.
(c) True understanding.
(d) Intellect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many parts are there to the work?

2. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?

3. How many years after the ascension of Jesus did the Islanders convert to Christianity?

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

5. Using the new logic, an observer will give up falsehood and avoid _____.

(see the answer key)

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