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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 lays out a plan for organizing which of the following?
(a) Books.
(b) Men.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Scientific inquiry.

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

3. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."
(a) Intellect.
(b) A meeting of the minds.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) True understanding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It is from the _____ of our causes that are planned fail.

2. Which of the following is the process of reasoning probabilistically?

3. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.

4. Bacon begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.

5. The problem is that common logic also requires more ____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Bacon feel experiments were necessary to prove one's logic?

3. Explain the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of the text.

4. Why did Francis Bacon apologize to King James I in his dedication to "The Great Instauration?" What did Bacon say?

5. What did Bacon say when people blame Adam's condemnation on science? What can be learned from the experience?

6. Discuss the second part of The Great Instauration and Bacon's plan to define and explain it.

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

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

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

10. How does Bacon referred to the wisdom of the Greeks? Additionally how does Bacon compare the state of learning to which mythical character?

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