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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Bacon use to describe syllogism?
(a) Garbage in, garbage out.
(b) Between a rock and a hard place.
(c) The pot calling the kettle black.
(d) In one ear and out the other.

2. Those that ran the polity of science were ____.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Blind.
(c) Dictators.
(d) Uninformed.

3. Bacon states that man can only obey _____ causes.
(a) God's.
(b) Man's.
(c) Nature's.
(d) Philosophy's.

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

5. What adjective is used to describe this particular course of inquiry?
(a) Peculiar.
(b) Rigid.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Loose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bacon states that reason can reconstruct human knowledge, science, and ____.

3. Bacon went to work for which King of England?

4. The new logic is designed to command active ____.

5. Which of the following often gives ideas that are false because of the lack of information?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Francis Bacon apologize to King James I in his dedication to "The Great Instauration?" What did Bacon say?

2. What is Bacon's advice to the people who would spend the majority of their time reading books on arts and sciences?

3. Explain the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of the text.

4. Discuss the second part of The Great Instauration and Bacon's plan to define and explain it.

5. What did Bacon say when people blame Adam's condemnation on science? What can be learned from the experience?

6. What was Bacon's way of counteracting the ways of the ancients?

7. Why did Bacon feel experiments were necessary to prove one's logic?

8. Bacon says that there is only way out of stagnation. What is it and why is it important?

9. What is Francis Bacon's main complaint about people realizing their strengths and weaknesses?

10. Define syllogism and the reason Bacon thought it was inferior to complete the task, which is to make men more forward thinking.

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