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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. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.
(a) Souls.
(b) Faith.
(c) Art.
(d) Logic.

2. The Coya let the king of Bensalem, a wise man named ____.
(a) Heyerdahl.
(b) Joabim.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Altabin.

3. Which of the following was manifested in the writings?
(a) Gift of Tongues.
(b) Gift of Prophecy.
(c) Gift of Divinity.
(d) Gift of Sight.

4. Bacon believes that the meeting between the two entities must return to its _______.
(a) Self.
(b) Womb.
(c) Original condition.
(d) Previous incarnation.

5. The modern ____ goes first from the senses to general propositions.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Logician.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) Scientist.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crew was informed that they would only be permitted to stay for ____ days along the coast.

2. The author states that the work is only a beginning that developing this philosophy is starting the real _____ of the human race.

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

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

5. Some of the Islanders believed that man would be willing to discard ____ for a better offer.

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