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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does Bacon use to describe syllogism?
(a) Garbage in, garbage out.
(b) In one ear and out the other.
(c) Between a rock and a hard place.
(d) The pot calling the kettle black.

3. Since the observer is ____, he must look to history for similar observations.
(a) Inexperienced.
(b) Easily influenced.
(c) Fallible.
(d) Confused.

4. What is a "procemium?"
(a) Preface.
(b) Preliminary.
(c) Prefix.
(d) Postscript.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What years did the King serve England?

3. We need methods that can discover causes and deliver philosophy's first:

4. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?

5. Which type of history is ideal to build a foundation for philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bacon's advice to the people who would spend the majority of their time reading books on arts and sciences?

2. Bacon says that there is only way out of stagnation. What is it and why is it important?

3. Briefly describe the overall purpose and any of the first part title "The Divisions of the Sciences."

4. What is Francis Bacon's main complaint about people realizing their strengths and weaknesses?

5. What steps has Bacon taken to devote himself wholly to his philosophy and to eliminate distractions from the outside world?

6. What is the opinion of the average man regarding the advancement of sciences?

7. What is the next step in the work? What tools can be used to accomplish the necessary tasks?

8. Explain the third part of the work and its connection to phenomena.

9. Define syllogism and the reason Bacon thought it was inferior to complete the task, which is to make men more forward thinking.

10. What was Bacon's way of counteracting the ways of the ancients?

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