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