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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. It is important that man be able to gather clues from _____.
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Science.
(d) Each other.

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

3. Francis Bacon believes that it is ____ for him to write the following work.
(a) Frivolous.
(b) Crucial.
(c) Worthwhile.
(d) Pointless.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.

2. How many parts are there to the work?

3. Of the ideas of the mind are poorly constructed and ____.

4. It is from the _____ of our causes that are planned fail.

5. Bacon rejects a certain type of reasoning because it is too _____ and independent of the empirical.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the process used by traditional logicians.

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

4. What steps has Bacon taken to devote himself wholly to his philosophy and to eliminate distractions from the outside world?

5. What are Bacon's thoughts on the advancement of philosophy?

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

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

8. How does Bacon referred to the wisdom of the Greeks? Additionally how does Bacon compare the state of learning to which mythical character?

9. Explain the culture needed for an observer.

10. Why did Bacon believed that it was pointless to argue simple human observation?

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