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