1) Francis Bacon, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of________?
A:) Revolution
B:) Rebellion
C:) Empiricism
D:) Adjudicator
springline's Correct option:C:) Empiricism
2) The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put forward in Bacon's book _______?
A:) Novum Organum
B:) The new Atlantis
C:) The Advancement of Learning
D:) Valerius Terminus
springline's Correct option:A:) Novum Organum
3). Francis Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories . The categories are _____?
A:) Prose, Essay, Poetry
B:) History, Essay, Poetry
C:) Poetry, Science, Philosophy
D:) History, Poetry, Philosophy
springline's Correct option:D:) History, Poetry, Philosophy
4) Bacon was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I of England reserved him as her legal advisor. After the accession of James VI and I in 1603, Bacon was knighted, then created Baron Verulam in the year of ________?
A:) 1617
B:) 1618
C:) 1619
D:) 1621
springline's Correct option:B:) 1618
5) The succession of James I brought Bacon into greater favour. He was knighted in 1603. In another shrewd move, Bacon wrote his Apologies in defense of his proceedings in the case of ________?
A:) Essex
B:) Middlesex
C:) Wessex
D:) Earl of Sussex
springline's Correct option:A:) Essex
6) Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. jurist is a person with expert knowledge of _______?
A:) Scholar
B:) Law
C:) Science
D:) Literature
springline's Correct option:B:) Law
7) Bacon’s parliamentary career began when he was elected MP for Bossiney, Cornwall, in a by-election in 1581. In 1584 he took his seat in Parliament for Melcombe in Dorset, and in 1586 for Taunton. At this time, he began to write on the condition of parties in the church, as well as on the topic of ________?
A:) Philosophical reform
B:) Psychological reform
C:) Political reform
D:) Parliament reform
springline's Correct option:A:) Philosophical reform
8) Bacon had no heirs and so both titles became extinct on his death in 1626 at the age of 65. He died of pneumonia. This is a complete chronological bibliography of Francis Bacon. Many of Bacon's writings were only published after his death in _______?
A:) 1625
B:) 1626
C:) 1627
D:) 1624
springline's Correct option:B:) 1626
9) In 1605 , Bacon published his first nature work in English Prose, The advancement of Learning. It is dedicated to king James Montaigne who had published his first two books of Essays in 1580 and they were translated into English by ________?
A:) Robert Fagles
B:) John Dryden
C:) John Horio
D:) Robert Bagg
springline's Correct option:C:) John Horio
10) Bacon's public career ended in disgrace in 1621. After he fell into debt, a parliamentary committee on the administration of the law charged him with 23 separate counts of corruption. Sir Edward Coke, who had instigated these accusations ,also he considered as Bacon’s _______?
A:) Friend
B:) Enemy
C:) Fellow man
D:) Brother
springline's Correct option:B:) Enemy
11) In the Essays, the original edition included 10 essays, a much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38. Third, under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was published in 1625 with _________?
A:) 52 Essays
B:) 53 Essays
C:) 50 Essays
D:) 58 Essays
springline's Correct option:D:) 58 Essays
12) “One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poet” these line were taken from the Essay of _______?
A:) Of Studies
B:) Of Adversity
C:) Of Truth
D:) Of Ambition
springline's Correct option:C:) Of Truth
13) From Of Truth essay; “To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clean and round dealing is the honour of man’s nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of ___________?
A:) Gold
B:) Siver
C:) Gold and Metal
D:) Gold and Silver
springline's Correct option:D:) Gold and Silver
14) In Of Studies; “ Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for ornament, is in _______?
A:) Essay
B:) Discourse
C:) Style
D:) Speech
springline's Correct option:B:) Discourse
15) Bacon notes in Of Studies: To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; to use them too much for ornament, is_______
A:) Wise
B:) Witty
C:) Affection
D:) Love
springline's Correct option:C:) Affection
16) From Of Studies ; Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning. Which makes men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile ?
A:) Studies
B:) Philosophy
C:) Reading
D:) Histories
springline's Correct option:D:) Histories
17) 'Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.' Which is a line taken from Of Adversity written by Bacon. Of Adversity which was written in the year of__________?
A:) 1625
B:) 1623
C:) 1624
D:) 1621
springline's Correct option:A:) 1625
18) Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. It was published in the year of________?
A:) 1588
B:) 1597
C:) 1590
D:)1578
springline's Correct option:B:) 1597
19) The phrase 'hostages to fortune' appears in the essay Of Marriage and Single Life – again the earliest known usage. Whose book Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, 'What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer', from Bacon's essay Of Truth. ?
A:) Aldous Huxley
B:) Robert Fagles
C:) Thomas Campbell
D:) John Horio
springline's Correct option:A:) Aldous Huxley
20) In “Of Adversity” : This would have done better in poesy, where transcendencies are more allowed; and the poets, indeed, have been busy with it; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be without mystery; nay, and to have some approach to the state of a Christian, 'that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus”, Human nature is represented by ______?
A:) Hercules
B:) Prometheus
C:) Christian
D:) Holy Ghost
springline's Correct option:B:) Prometheus
21) “Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation” these famous lines were taken from _________?
A:) Of Truth
B:) Of Ambition
C:) Of Adversity
D:) Of Studies
springline's Correct option:D:) Of Studies
22) From Of Revenge; “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon: and _____?
A:) Justice
B:) Solomon
C:) Salomon
D:) Mercy
springline's Correct option:B:) Solomon
23) 'You shall read,' saith he 'that we are commanded to forgive our enemies but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.' But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: 'Shall we,' saith he, 'take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?' and so of friends in a proportion, Which these lines taken from Bacon’s_________?
A:) Of Friends
B:) Of Adversity
C:) Of Truth
D:) Of Revenge
springline's Correct option:D:) Of Revenge
24) In “Of Truth’’, Bacon says, “ The first creature of God , in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of_________?
A:) Spirit
B:) Reason
C:) Faith
D:) Trust
springline's Correct option:B:) Reason
25) “Bacon says that if a man writes little, he needs to have great memory so that he does not forget things. Similarly, if a man does not have the habit of engaging in a discussion, he needs to have a present state of mind to tackle any situation in his public life”, these line taken from the essay of _________?
A:) Of truth
B:) Of Studies
C:) Of ambition
D:) Of friendship
springline's Correct option:B:) Of Studies
26) 'It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.' That which is past is gone and irrecoverable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but 'trifle with themselves, that labour in past matters, Which is a line taken from Bacon’s one of the Essay of “Of Revenge” and the 3rd edition , “Of revenge” published in the year of_________?
A:) 1614
B:) 1612
C:) 1625
D:) 1587
springline's Correct option:C:) 1625
27) A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce; these line is taken from the Essay of , “Of Friendship”. Of Friendship which was written in 1612 and it was rewritten in ________?
A:) 1627
B:) 1624
C:) 1635
D:) 1625
springline's Correct option:D:) 1625
28) Of ambitions, it is less harmful the ambition to prevail to great things, than that other to appear in everything; for that breeds confusion, and mars business; Honour hath three things in it; the vantage ground to do good; the approach to kings and principal persons; and the raising of a man a __________?
A:) Own fortune
B:) Own victory
C:) Own willing
D:) Own duty
springline's Correct option:A:) Own fortune
29) In “Of Studies” Bacon discusses how studies can assist us in different ways. He begins the essay with the three ways through which studies serve the readers: delight, ornament, and ability; Of studies which was enlarged in the year of 1625 and it was published in_________?
A:) 1610
B:) 1587
C:) 1612
D:) 1597
springline's Correct option:D:) 1597
30) Bacon published a philosophical essay at his age of 25. In the work of Essay, the original edition included 10 essays, a much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38 essay. The 1st editions of his essays were dedicated to ________?
A:) Lord Burghley
B:) Anthony Bacon
C:) James I
D:) William Rawley
springline's Correct option:B:) Anthony Bacon