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

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

3. Bacon believes that the meeting between the two entities must return to its _______.
(a) Original condition.
(b) Womb.
(c) Self.
(d) Previous incarnation.

4. Part of the reason for the movement was to show that the knowledge in _____ was stagnant.
(a) The Scientific Community.
(b) The Church.
(c) Europe.
(d) The public's consciousness.

5. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Logic.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Observation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The fourth parts of the plan involves the application of _______.

2. Science descended from debates held by the ______.

3. The sixth part refers to the _______ course of inquiry.

4. Bacon states that a new logic has a different _____ from the old logic.

5. Of the ideas of the mind are poorly constructed and ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the culture needed for an observer.

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

3. What was the fault of the ancients regarding philosophy?

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

5. What happens to cause the wanderers to be confused and lost?

6. What is the role of the modern logician? What does Bacon want to change about the process?

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

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

9. Why did Bacon believed that it was pointless to argue simple human observation?

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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