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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _____ way starts out hard but ends in "open country."
(a) Scientific.
(b) Instinctive.
(c) Methodical.
(d) Natural.

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

3. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?
(a) Observation.
(b) Experiments.
(c) Models.
(d) Experience.

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

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

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

7. Science descended from debates held by the ______.
(a) Church.
(b) British.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Romans.

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

9. The first part of the work is to equip the intellect to do which of the following?
(a) Move forward.
(b) Be rebuilt.
(c) Question itself.
(d) Process information.

10. We must avoid our ____if we want to see the pattern of the world..
(a) Imagination.
(b) Past.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Divinity.

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

12. The new logic is designed to command active ____.
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Thought.
(c) Minds.
(d) Nature.

13. The author states that everything should be observed from the _____ to the human body.
(a) Bottom of the sea.
(b) Earth's core.
(c) Smallest insect.
(d) Heavens.

14. Of the philosophers attempt to amend simple human observation with ridiculous _____.
(a) Determinations.
(b) Conclusions.
(c) Subtlety.
(d) Theories.

15. Which of the following are said to have had no role except for in mechanics?
(a) Inventors.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Mathematicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon states that people tend lean toward false and hasty ______.

2. If man was able to focus on these powers, he would be able to master which of the following?

3. Bacon lays out a plan for organizing which of the following?

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

5. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.

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