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

2. The fourth parts of the plan involves the application of _______.
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Hypotheses.
(c) Observation.
(d) Motion.

3. What is studied in a "perspective house?"
(a) Light.
(b) Angles.
(c) Art.
(d) Thought.

4. Bacon's goal is to collect particular _______ and then make inferences about general principles.
(a) Schools of thought.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Phenomena.
(d) Philosophies.

5. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.
(a) Disjointed.
(b) Specific.
(c) Questionably.
(d) Provisionally.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It is said that the King's greatest act was to found an order called Salomon's House. The house is often referred to as being the ____ foundation on the earth.

3. It is important that man be able to gather clues from _____.

4. Which of the following items is needed to find the systematic order a particular subject?

5. Which of the following is not mentioned as being a group with large fleets?

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