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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which type of history is ideal to build a foundation for philosophy?
(a) Empirical.
(b) Natural.
(c) Divine.
(d) Revised.

2. Those that ran the polity of science were ____.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Dictators.
(c) Blind.
(d) Uninformed.

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

4. Bacon states that man can only obey _____ causes.
(a) God's.
(b) Philosophy's.
(c) Nature's.
(d) Man's.

5. Which of the following is the process of reasoning probabilistically?
(a) Adduction.
(b) Deduction.
(c) Induction.
(d) Reduction.

6. At the same time, men tend to underestimate their _____.
(a) Weaknesses.
(b) Goals.
(c) Power.
(d) Strengths.

7. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?
(a) Observation.
(b) Investigation.
(c) Experiments.
(d) Logic.

8. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.
(a) Philosophies.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Phenomena.
(d) Schools of thought.

9. Bacon asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.
(a) Unitarian.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Trinitarian.
(d) Universal.

10. It is from the _____ of our causes that are planned fail.
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Dissolution.
(d) Absolution.

11. Human reasoning is _____.
(a) Purposeful.
(b) Flawed.
(c) Divine.
(d) Premature.

12. It is important that man be able to gather clues from _____.
(a) Science.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Each other.

13. Many things may be improved by using instruments of _____.
(a) God.
(b) Logic.
(c) Fellowship.
(d) Intuition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."

2. Part of the reason for the movement was to show that the knowledge in _____ was stagnant.

3. The ancients looked only to the stars and as such became too focused on ____ and abstract meditation.

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

5. Bacon refers to one's powers as being ____ and reasoning.

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