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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 asks the ____ God to grant him the power to help humanity.
(a) Universal.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Trinitarian.
2. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.
(a) Schools of thought.
(b) Philosophies.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Phenomena.
3. Bacon suggests that man should try to focus on their ___ powers.
(a) True.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Limited.
(d) God-given.
4. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?
(a) Phenomena.
(b) Nature.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Senses.
5. Bacon states that a new logic has a different _____ from the old logic.
(a) Starting point.
(b) Destination.
(c) Method.
(d) Aim.
Short Answer Questions
1. The new logic is designed to command active ____.
2. What term does Bacon use to describe syllogism?
3. What adjective is used to describe this particular course of inquiry?
4. In ordinary logic, _____ reigns.
5. Bacon states that man can only obey _____ causes.
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of the text.
2. Define syllogism and the reason Bacon thought it was inferior to complete the task, which is to make men more forward thinking.
3. Discuss the process used by traditional logicians.
4. Why did Bacon believed that it was pointless to argue simple human observation?
5. What is the role of the modern logician? What does Bacon want to change about the process?
6. Briefly describe the overall purpose and any of the first part title "The Divisions of the Sciences."
7. What happens to cause the wanderers to be confused and lost?
8. What is the opinion of the average man regarding the advancement of sciences?
9. Why did Bacon feel experiments were necessary to prove one's logic?
10. What was the fault of the ancients regarding philosophy?
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