New Atlantis Quizzes

New Atlantis Quiz 1

1 When was New Atlantis published?

1626

1620

1605

1599
2 New Atlantis was published ___.

early in Bacon's career

posthumously

in a volume of poetry

before Bacon's essays
3 Alongside which text did New Atlantis originally appear?

Sylva Sylvarum

Utopia

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Foxe's Book of Martyrs
4 Francis Bacon was a/an ___.

poet

courtier

mathematician

philosopher
5 Francis Bacon was also a/an ___.

playwright

doctor

actor

scientist
6 Bacon served as ___.

Prime Minister

Poet Laureate

Attorney General

a member of the king's Privy Council
7 Bacon has been called the father of ___.

empiricism

science

philosophy

utopian novels
8 Bacon believed that knowledge came from ___.

language

reading

sensory experience

rituals
9 Which university did Bacon attend?

University of St. Andrew's

Oxford University

He did not attend university.

University of the Cambridge
10 There is a conspiracy theory that Francis Bacon ___.

fathered John Milton

invented Daylight Savings Time

wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare

published under a pseudonym
11 In school, Bacon was educated mostly in ___.

English

Spanish

French

Latin
12 Bacon became a recipient of the Queen's Council designation in ___.

1601

1586

1597

1610
13 Which monarch used Bacon as a legal advisor?

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

James I

Charles I
14 Which monarch knighted Bacon?

James I

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles I
15 Bacon became Baron Varulam in ___.

1608

1625

1618

1670
16 Bacon had no ___.

children

official titles

estate

inheritance
17 Bacon died at the age of ___.

48

60

75

65
18 How did Bacon die?

Heart attack

The plague

Tuberculosis

Pneumonia
19 It is said that Bacon contracted a serious illness after ___.

traveling abroad

conducting a scientific experiment

attending one of Shakespeare's plays

writing New Atlantis
20 Bacon is often credited with contributing to the development of ___.

Puritanism

the scientific method

a utopian society

a mixed monarchy
21 Bacon died in ___.

1600

1630

1626

1642
22 Bacon's primary genre of writing was the ___.

play

essay

poem

political treatise
23 Inductive reasoning is a form of logic based on ___.

observation

contemplation

exploration

memory
24 Bacon believed that scientists should approach their experiments with ___.

intrigue

joy

sophistication

skepticism
25 Bacon's own method of reasoning is called the ___.

Baconian Method

Empirical Method

Elizabethan Method

Scientific Method

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