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