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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, New Atlantis, A Work Unfinished (Introduction, Discovery of Bensalem, Meeting with Governor).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first part is referred to as being ______ outlined.
(a) Haphazardly.
(b) Sloppily.
(c) Loosely.
(d) Temporarily.

3. How many weeks were the sailors permitted to stay ashore?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

4. The sailors offered _____ to the governor; the governor refused.
(a) Praise.
(b) Payment.
(c) Goods.
(d) Food.

5. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.
(a) Frivolous.
(b) Worthwhile.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Crucial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead, men placed too much focus on their ____.

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

3. The author states that everything should be observed from the _____ to the human body.

4. Bacon rejects a certain type of reasoning because it is too _____ and independent of the empirical.

5. It is the ____ of power that caused angels to fall.

(see the answer key)

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