New Atlantis Quizzes

New Atlantis Quiz 1

1 When was New Atlantis published?
1620

1605

1599

1626
2 New Atlantis was published ___.
posthumously

early in Bacon's career

before Bacon's essays

in a volume of poetry
3 Alongside which text did New Atlantis originally appear?
Shakespeare's Sonnets

Utopia

Sylva Sylvarum

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

philosopher

poet

courtier
5 Francis Bacon was also a/an ___.
doctor

actor

scientist

playwright
6 Bacon served as ___.
Attorney General

Prime Minister

Poet Laureate

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

utopian novels

empiricism

philosophy
8 Bacon believed that knowledge came from ___.
language

rituals

sensory experience

reading
9 Which university did Bacon attend?
He did not attend university.

University of St. Andrew's

University of the Cambridge

Oxford University
10 There is a conspiracy theory that Francis Bacon ___.
published under a pseudonym

fathered John Milton

wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare

invented Daylight Savings Time
11 In school, Bacon was educated mostly in ___.
French

Latin

Spanish

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

1601

1586

1597
13 Which monarch used Bacon as a legal advisor?
Henry VIII

Charles I

Elizabeth I

James I
14 Which monarch knighted Bacon?
Henry VIII

Charles I

Elizabeth I

James I
15 Bacon became Baron Varulam in ___.
1670

1618

1608

1625
16 Bacon had no ___.
estate

inheritance

children

official titles
17 Bacon died at the age of ___.
75

65

48

60
18 How did Bacon die?
Tuberculosis

Heart attack

The plague

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

attending one of Shakespeare's plays

writing New Atlantis

conducting a scientific experiment
20 Bacon is often credited with contributing to the development of ___.
a utopian society

Puritanism

a mixed monarchy

the scientific method
21 Bacon died in ___.
1642

1630

1626

1600
22 Bacon's primary genre of writing was the ___.
poem

essay

play

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

exploration

memory

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

intrigue

joy

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

Baconian Method

Scientific Method

Elizabethan Method

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