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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 begs the King to be a ____ and respecter of the Sciences.
(a) Representative.
(b) Master.
(c) Embodiment.
(d) Patron.

2. This is accomplished through the use of ______.
(a) Experiments.
(b) Hypotheses.
(c) Devices.
(d) Experience.

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

4. How many parts are there to the work?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

5. What years did the King serve England?
(a) 1610-1639.
(b) 1601-1628.
(c) 1616-1651.
(d) 1603-1625.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.

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

3. The modern ____ goes first from the senses to general propositions.

4. Those that ran the polity of science were ____.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are Bacon's thoughts on the advancement of philosophy?

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

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

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