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12 questions
  1. According to Bacon, studies serve for —
    1. wealth, power and fame
    2. delight, ornament and ability
    3. faith, hope and charity
    4. reason, memory and imagination
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    Answer: (B) delight, ornament and ability

    The opening sentence of the essay names these three uses.

  2. Which one word best describes Bacon’s style?
    1. Discursive
    2. Informal
    3. Intimate
    4. Terse
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    Answer: (D) Terse

    Bacon writes short, packed, impersonal sentences — the standard word is terse.

  3. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" means that —
    1. books should be read aloud
    2. different books deserve different degrees of attention
    3. reading should be done after meals
    4. only a few books are worth buying
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    Answer: (B) different books deserve different degrees of attention

    Taste, swallow, chew and digest stand for three levels of attention.

  4. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Here "conference" means —
    1. a formal meeting
    2. conversation
    3. a lecture
    4. a written report
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    Answer: (B) conversation

    Bacon uses conference in its older sense of conversation or discussion.

  5. According to Bacon, to spend too much time in studies is —
    1. wisdom
    2. sloth
    3. affectation
    4. ambition
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    Answer: (B) sloth

    Excessive study is a form of laziness, not of industry.

  6. "Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." To "contemn" means to —
    1. praise
    2. despise
    3. misunderstand
    4. imitate
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    Answer: (B) despise

    To contemn is to despise or look down on.

  7. Bacon says a man with a wandering wit should study —
    1. history
    2. poetry
    3. the mathematics
    4. law
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    Answer: (C) the mathematics

    In mathematics a moment’s inattention forces you to begin again, so it cures wandering.

  8. "Histories make men wise; poets witty" — according to Bacon, the mathematics make men —
    1. grave
    2. deep
    3. subtle
    4. able to contend
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    Answer: (C) subtle

    The full list: histories wise, poets witty, mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.

  9. The Latin phrase "Abeunt studia in mores" means —
    1. studies pass into character
    2. study is the road to wealth
    3. learning never ends
    4. books are our best friends
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    Answer: (A) studies pass into character

    What a man studies eventually becomes part of what he is.

  10. The final edition of Bacon’s Essays (1625) contained —
    1. 10 essays
    2. 38 essays
    3. 58 essays
    4. 100 essays
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    Answer: (C) 58 essays

    Ten in 1597, thirty-eight in 1612 and fifty-eight in 1625.

  11. From which writer did Bacon take the essay form?
    1. Montaigne
    2. Cicero
    3. Seneca
    4. Erasmus
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    Answer: (A) Montaigne

    He borrowed the form from the Frenchman Montaigne, but made it impersonal and practical.

  12. According to Bacon, studies are perfected by —
    1. memory
    2. experience
    3. teachers
    4. argument
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    Answer: (B) experience

    Studies perfect nature, and are themselves perfected by experience.

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