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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. We need methods that can discover causes and deliver philosophy's first:
(a) Ideas.
(b) Food.
(c) Breath.
(d) Fruit.
2. What is another name for "The Great Instauration?"
(a) "The Great Restoration."
(b) "The Scientific Method."
(c) "The Tragic Rebirth."
(d) "The Mighty Revolution."
3. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.
(a) Logic.
(b) Souls.
(c) Faith.
(d) Art.
4. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.
(a) Questionably.
(b) Provisionally.
(c) Disjointed.
(d) Specific.
5. Often times the community was controlled by ______ rules.
(a) No.
(b) Disorganized.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Unenforceable.
6. Bacon suggests that man should try to focus on their ___ powers.
(a) Limited.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) God-given.
(d) True.
7. Science descended from debates held by the ______.
(a) Romans.
(b) British.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Church.
8. Which is not one of the parts of the plan?
(a) The New Philosophy.
(b) The Ladder of the Intellect.
(c) Division of Sciences.
(d) History of Philosophy.
9. Which Biblical person was condemned for illicit moral knowledge?
(a) Adam.
(b) Eve.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Judas.
10. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?
(a) Phenomena.
(b) Nature.
(c) Senses.
(d) Divinity.
11. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.
(a) Pointless.
(b) Worthwhile.
(c) Frivolous.
(d) Crucial.
12. Which of the following promises to remedy the problem by offering repeatable testable methods of inquiry?
(a) Experiments.
(b) Logic.
(c) Observation.
(d) Investigation.
13. It is important that man be able to gather clues from _____.
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Each other.
(d) Science.
14. Ultimately, man is nature's _____.
(a) Opponent..
(b) Experiment.
(c) Folly.
(d) Servant.
15. Of the ideas of the mind are poorly constructed and ____.
(a) Faulty.
(b) Vague.
(c) Ill formed.
(d) Confusing.
Short Answer Questions
1. Bacon refers to one's powers as being ____ and reasoning.
2. It is better to try and fail rather than to make _____ on something that cannot work.
3. The first part of the work is to equip the intellect to do which of the following?
4. The author states that the work is only a beginning that developing this philosophy is starting the real _____ of the human race.
5. It is stated that the author believes that men tend to misunderstand their _____.
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