Francis Bacon - Quiz
A) New Atlantis B) Verulam House C) Shakespeare Hall D) Soulton Hall
A) The King's Palace B) Soulton Hall C) The Globe Theatre D) The London Parliament
A) 36 B) 45 C) 20 D) 13
A) Sir Simonds D'Ewes B) Sir Edward Coke C) William Rawley D) Sir John Underhill
A) 45 B) 36 C) 20 D) 13
A) 36 B) 13 C) 20 D) 45
A) 3 May 1606 B) 10 May 1621 C) 10 May 1606 D) 3 May 1621
A) Sir Simonds D'Ewes B) William Rawley C) John Aubrey D) Joseph Cady
A) A portrait B) A robe of honour C) A sonnet D) A ring
A) Her failure to produce an heir B) Her refusal to follow court etiquette C) Her complaining about money D) Her romantic relationship with Sir John Underhill
A) Rawley B) Forker C) D'Ewes D) Bunten
A) Sir John Underhill B) William Rawley C) Percy D) Mr. Henry Godrick
A) Anthony Bacon's mother B) Elizabeth Hatton's mother C) Alice Barnham's mother D) Bacon's own mother
A) A kingdom of great wealth B) A center for artistic expression C) The chastest nation under heaven D) A place of masculine love
A) The belief that Bacon and Shakespeare were the same person B) The belief that Bacon wrote some or all of Shakespeare's plays C) The theory that Bacon was Shakespeare's editor D) The claim that Shakespeare plagiarized Bacon's work
A) India B) South America C) North America D) Australia
A) 1610 B) 1910 C) 1612 D) 1609
A) Thomas Jefferson B) Benjamin Franklin C) George Washington D) Abraham Lincoln
A) Plato and Aristotle B) Darwin and Einstein C) Locke and Newton D) Washington and Adams
A) 1910 B) 1609 C) 1612 D) 1610
A) The guiding spirit in Colonization Schemes B) The governor of Newfoundland C) The greatest scientist of his age D) The founder of the United States
A) 1600 and 1609 B) 1610 and 1910 C) 1609 and 1612 D) 1609 and 1610
A) Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland B) The Carolinas, Newfoundland, and Pennsylvania C) New York, Newfoundland, and the Carolinas D) Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia
A) The Lord Chandos Letter B) Micrographia C) Pseudodoxia Epidemica D) Novum Organum
A) History of Life and Death B) The Lord Chandos Letter C) Novum Organum D) Micrographia
A) Inductive reasoning B) Top-down reasoning C) Deductive reasoning D) Metaphysical speculation
A) Reasoning from evidence B) Reasoning from a pre-existing hypothesis C) Reasoning from immovable principles D) Reasoning from general axioms to particulars
A) Hypotheses B) Principles C) Axioms D) Particulars
A) Metaphysical contemplation B) Experimentation C) Top-down reasoning D) Pre-existing hypotheses
A) Voltaire B) Descartes C) William Hepworth Dixon D) Hugo von Hofmannsthal
A) Modern Medicine B) Experimental Philosophy C) French Enlightenment D) Natural Theology
A) Inductive reasoning B) The Royal Society C) The scientific method D) Medicine
A) Hugo von Hofmannsthal B) Thomas Browne C) Robert Hooke D) William Hepworth Dixon
A) Reasoning starting with data B) Reasoning from a pre-existing premise C) Reasoning from gathered particulars D) Reasoning through experimental evidence
A) The French Academy B) The Enlightenment Circle C) The Philosophical Society D) The Royal Society
A) As purely metaphysical B) As identical to Descartes C) As outdated and irrelevant D) As non-metaphysical
A) Jumping to general axioms immediately B) Ignoring all empirical data C) Sorting them into a formal arrangement D) Defining a prior hypothesis
A) An extremely subtle complexity B) A chaotic and unknowable mystery C) A fixed reality reachable by deduction D) A simple set of immutable laws
A) Four B) Two C) Five D) Three
A) Medical works B) Mathematical works C) Juridical works D) Architectural works
A) Artistic theory B) Scientific methodology C) Poetic structure D) Navigational maps
A) 1597 B) 1605 C) 1612 D) 1625
A) 58 B) 10 C) 38 D) 25
A) 58 B) 80 C) 38 D) 10
A) The New Organon B) The Advancement of Learning C) The Great Instauration D) The New Atlantis
A) 1623 B) 1626 C) 1612 D) 1620
A) The Advancement of Learning B) Certain Observations Made upon a Libel C) Novum Organum D) A Declaration of the Practices
A) Rome B) Spain C) France D) Athens
A) He opposed a bill for triple subsidies B) He insulted the Queen publicly C) He supported a Roman Catholic plot D) He refused to attend Parliament
A) A property at Twickenham B) An estate in Essex C) A house in London D) A manor in Middlesex
A) £1,200 B) £1,500 C) £2,000 D) £1,800
A) Solicitor General B) Lord Chancellor C) Attorney General D) Queen's Counsel designate
A) A Jesuit noblewoman B) The daughter of Sir Edward Coke C) Queen Elizabeth D) Lady Elizabeth Hatton
A) 1601 B) 1592 C) 1595 D) 1598
A) He was executed for treason B) He became the Attorney General C) He was exiled to Spain D) He retired to Twickenham
A) Lord Chancellor B) Secretary of State C) Duke of York D) Prime Minister
A) University of Paris B) Trinity College, Cambridge C) University of Poitiers D) University of Oxford
A) Paris B) Cambridge C) London D) St Albans
A) 72 B) 60 C) 55 D) 65
A) The wise counselor B) The scholarly philosopher C) The future chancellor D) The young lord keeper
A) Socrates B) Epicurus C) Plato D) Aristotle
A) His titles became extinct B) His library was donated to the state C) His estate was confiscated by the King D) His titles were passed to his brother's family
A) 1603 B) 1597 C) 1618 D) 1621
A) St Michael's Church, St Albans B) York House C) Trinity College Chapel D) Westminster Abbey
A) 1580 B) 1582 C) 1586 D) 1584
A) Bossiney, Cornwall B) Cambridge C) Liverpool D) Ipswich
A) The Advancement of Learning B) Temporis Partus Maximus C) Novum Organum D) Essays
A) Catholicism B) Puritanism C) Presbyterianism D) Anglicanism
A) Walter Travers B) Mary, Queen of Scots C) Lord Burghley D) The chaplain of Gray's Inn
A) 1587 B) 1582 C) 1586 D) 1589
A) Ipswich B) Liverpool C) Taunton D) Middlesex
A) Alice Barnham B) Elizabeth Tudor C) Mary Queen of Scots D) Frances Howard
A) Solicitor General B) Attorney General C) Clerk of the Star Chamber D) Lord Chancellor
A) February 1611 B) January 1621 C) April 1614 D) June 1607
A) Lord Chancellor B) Attorney General C) Solicitor General D) Baron Verulam
A) James I B) Robert Carr C) Frances Howard D) Edmund Peacham
A) 27 January 1621 B) 14 April 1614 C) 12 June 1607 D) 12 July 1618
A) The Star Chamber Report B) Apologies C) The Masque of Flowers D) Royal Prerogatives
A) 5 B) 23 C) 12 D) 30
A) £40,000 B) £10,000 C) £50,000 D) £25,000
A) Ben Jonson B) Basil Montagu C) Sir Thomas Meautys D) Thomas Hobbes
A) Dewes B) Weldon C) Herbert D) Cecil
A) He was pardoned immediately B) It lasted for five years C) He died in prison D) It lasted only a few days
A) Exile B) Execution C) Public flogging D) Degradation
A) A broken reed B) A martyr for justice C) A fallen star D) A loyal servant
A) Old age B) A fever C) The plague D) Pneumonia
A) A goose B) A duck C) A hen D) A rabbit
A) Snow B) Salt C) Straw D) Ice
A) The Earl of Arundel B) Thomas Hobbes C) Caius Plinius the elder D) John Aubrey
A) Legal Quarterly B) New Scientist C) The Economist D) Nature
A) Lincoln's Inn B) Inner Temple C) Gray's Inn D) Middle Temple
A) 1613 B) 1601 C) 1608 D) 1625
A) Purely academic essays B) Adversarial hypotheses C) Final binding judgments D) Historical narratives
A) Zero B) One C) Five D) Ten
A) A means of investigation B) A search for truth C) A punitive measure D) A government operation
A) Reason B) Imagination C) Memory D) Perception
A) Reason B) Observation C) Imagination D) Memory
A) Imagination B) Memory C) Reason D) Intuition
A) Knowledge is power B) Reason is strength C) Science is wisdom D) Truth is light
A) Novum Organum B) Meditationes Sacrae C) Essays D) The New Atlantis |
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