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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2c, New Atlantis, a Work Unfinished (The Father of Salomon's House).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is not one of the parts of the plan?
(a) History of Philosophy.
(b) The New Philosophy.
(c) Division of Sciences.
(d) The Ladder of the Intellect.

2. How many years after the ascension of Jesus did the Islanders convert to Christianity?
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

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

4. What word is used to describe their drug stores?
(a) Dispensatories.
(b) Pharmacy.
(c) Chemists.
(d) Medicine house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first part is referred to as being ______ outlined.

2. What is another name for "The Great Instauration?"

3. Bacon believes that the human mind easily misuses its ____ in many ways.

4. Before the sailors were allowed to go ashore, they had to take an oath that they were not ____.

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

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