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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following decayed in the rest of the world?

2. Who was responsible for arbitrating disputes?

3. What is the name of the city merchant that came in contact with the sailor?

4. What was the intended destination?

5. According to island law, a person must wait at least ____ month(s) between the first interview and marriage.

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the landing at Bensalem.

2. What happened after the sailors made the request to go ashore? How long did it take for the sailors to get the response?

3. Who arrived on the fourth day? What was his purpose?

4. How did the governor explain the islanders' conversion to Christianity?

5. What was the governor's advice regarding the sailors' thoughts of America?

6. What happened the next day when the governor visited again?

7. Describe the food brought to the sailors at the Stranger's House.

8. What two great expeditions were taken by the sailors of Coya and Tyrambel?

9. What is said about Atlantis at this point?

10. What happened the next morning after the sailors settled into their assigned lodgings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bacon's plan of scientific inquiry was divided into six parts. Give an overview of each part; discuss how it aids in the progression of thought. Also discuss why there are omissions and unfinished parts of the work.

Essay Topic 2

Bacon sees the debates between philosophers as being relatively useless. Why? What about the debates does not help man move forward? Bacon mentions several schools of thought that could easily spawn heated debates. Examine these topics. Also use references in the text to structure a debate on old logic versus new logic, the wisdom of the ancients versus modern philosophy.

Essay Topic 3

Twenty years after the ascension of Christ, the people of Renfusa saw some unidentified phenomena on the water. Explain the phenomena as much as possible. Could the phenomena be explained using today's scientific methods? Do you believe there was a force field or paralyzing force attached to the phenomena? Could it have been mass hallucination? What was left behind after the light disappeared?

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