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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. What was the name of the island?
(a) Pago Pago.
(b) Bensalem.
(c) Tutwila.
(d) Renfusa.

2. Which of the following was delivered to the ship by a small greeting party?
(a) Invitation.
(b) Parchment.
(c) Book.
(d) Fresh water.

3. The people realize that once they got as close as ____ yards they could not move.
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 100.

4. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?
(a) Logic.
(b) Experiments.
(c) Investigation.
(d) Observation.

5. It is from the _____ of our causes that are planned fail.
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Dissolution.
(d) Absolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. If man was able to focus on these powers, he would be able to master which of the following?

2. The author states that the work is only a beginning that developing this philosophy is starting the real _____ of the human race.

3. Which of the following is the process of reasoning probabilistically?

4. The sixth part refers to the _______ course of inquiry.

5. A person's examination of the world should involve true _____.

(see the answer key)

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