New Atlantis Quizzes

New Atlantis Quiz 1

1 When was New Atlantis published?
1626

1620

1599

1605
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?
Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Utopia

Sylva Sylvarum
4 Francis Bacon was a/an ___.
poet

philosopher

courtier

mathematician
5 Francis Bacon was also a/an ___.
playwright

scientist

actor

doctor
6 Bacon served as ___.
Attorney General

Poet Laureate

Prime Minister

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

empiricism

philosophy

science
8 Bacon believed that knowledge came from ___.
sensory experience

language

rituals

reading
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 ___.
wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare

invented Daylight Savings Time

published under a pseudonym

fathered John Milton
11 In school, Bacon was educated mostly in ___.
Latin

Spanish

French

English
12 Bacon became a recipient of the Queen's Council designation in ___.
1610

1597

1586

1601
13 Which monarch used Bacon as a legal advisor?
Charles I

Henry VIII

Elizabeth I

James I
14 Which monarch knighted Bacon?
Charles I

Elizabeth I

James I

Henry VIII
15 Bacon became Baron Varulam in ___.
1625

1608

1618

1670
16 Bacon had no ___.
children

estate

official titles

inheritance
17 Bacon died at the age of ___.
65

48

60

75
18 How did Bacon die?
Pneumonia

Heart attack

The plague

Tuberculosis
19 It is said that Bacon contracted a serious illness after ___.
traveling abroad

writing New Atlantis

conducting a scientific experiment

attending one of Shakespeare's plays
20 Bacon is often credited with contributing to the development of ___.
a utopian society

Puritanism

the scientific method

a mixed monarchy
21 Bacon died in ___.
1642

1626

1600

1630
22 Bacon's primary genre of writing was the ___.
play

political treatise

poem

essay
23 Inductive reasoning is a form of logic based on ___.
observation

memory

exploration

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

joy

intrigue

sophistication
25 Bacon's own method of reasoning is called the ___.
Baconian Method

Scientific Method

Elizabethan Method

Empirical Method

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