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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1b, The Plan of the Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With clear ____, the intellect can become more powerful.
(a) Direction.
(b) Intention.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Logic.

2. Bacon refers to one's powers as being ____ and reasoning.
(a) Intuition.
(b) Truth.
(c) Logic.
(d) Faith.

3. Bacon states that a new logic has a different _____ from the old logic.
(a) Starting point.
(b) Method.
(c) Aim.
(d) Destination.

4. Instead, men placed too much focus on their ____.
(a) Faith.
(b) Work.
(c) Art.
(d) False beliefs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.

2. Using the new logic, an observer will give up falsehood and avoid _____.

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

4. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.

5. Bacon says that ____ is "more precious than anything on earth."

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