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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Nature.
(c) Senses.
(d) Phenomena.

2. Bacon went to work for which King of England?
(a) George.
(b) Richard.
(c) James.
(d) Henry.

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

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

5. Other forms of thinking may start out being easier but will most likely end up in ____ places.
(a) Dark.
(b) Many different.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Dangerous.

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

7. The first part is referred to as being ______ outlined.
(a) Temporarily.
(b) Loosely.
(c) Haphazardly.
(d) Sloppily.

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

9. In the end, the two sides ended up arguing over ______.
(a) Money.
(b) Ideals.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Karma.

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

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

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

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

14. The fourth parts of the plan involves the application of _______.
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Observation.
(c) Motion.
(d) Hypotheses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "procemium?"

2. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.

3. What years did the King serve England?

4. This is accomplished through the use of ______.

5. We must avoid our ____if we want to see the pattern of the world..

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