1. As pointed out by Lewalski and Adams in the NAEL7 introduction, Bacon's essays, in contrast with Montaigne's, are more: (a) personal (b) literary (c) impersonal (d) nationalistic

2. As indicated in the NAEL7 introduction, the Essays have an emphasis that is: (a) scientific (b) practical (c) moral (d) theoretical

3. As often indicated about Bacon's prose style (including in NAEL), particularly in the Essays, a distinctive feature is its quality of: (a) digression (b) literalness (c) hyperbole (d) aphorism

4. The quality indicated in the immediately preceding question is often considered: (a) Senecan (b) Euphuistic (c) Ciceronian (d) Baroque

5. In the Essays in NAEL, Bacon frequently uses as a sentence opener which pair of the following: (a) but and nor (b) yet and so (c) or and however (d) and and for

6. Bacon's stylistic preference, cited in the immediately preceding question, is for the: (a) coordinate conjunction (b) demonstrative pronoun (c) abstract noun (d) relative adverb (e) partitive preposition

7. The cumulative suggestion of the stylistic feature referred to in the two immediately preceding questions is an emphasis on: (a) limitation (b) connection (c) appellation (d) division

8. In his repeated giving of directions in the Essays in NAEL, Bacon frequently uses what stylistic element or component of the verb: (a) indicative (b) passive (c) imperative (d) subjunctive

9. In the Essays in NAEL, the verb often used by Bacon for what is referred to in the immediately preceding question is: (a) Become (b) Was (c) Gave (d) Let

10. In giving a series or list of items in the Essays, Bacon uses the stylistic element: (a) parallelism (b) parale(i)psis (c) polysyndeton (d) periphrasis

11. In Essay 1 (of the 59) ("Of Truth"), Bacon discusses truth in all the following except which one: (a) theological (b) philosophical (c) business (d) science

12. In Essay 1, Bacon uses all the following figures of speech except which one: (a) metaphor (b) synecdoche (c) personification (d) simile (e) allusion

13. The prevalence of figurative language in Essay 1 is probably related to what quality of its subject: (a) romantic (b) poetic (c) abstractness (d) political

14. In Essay 8 (of the 59) ("Of Marriage and Single Life"), the subject matter of the fourth section ("Grave natures . . . own folly" [sentences 14-20]) is: (a) good husbands and wives (b) discipline of singles vs. marrieds (c) singlehood (d) marriage vs. singlehood

15. The tone of sentence 8 of Essay 8 ("But the most ordinary . . .") is: (a) earnest (b) ironic (c) rueful (d) impassive

16. The opening sentences of Essays 11 ("Of Great Place") suggest that intrinsic to great place or power are: (a) crimes (b) deceptions (c) studies (d) paradoxes

17. Sentences 11-14 of par. 1 ("In place there is license . . . and then the sabbath") in Essay 11 are about: (a) public relations, image, factions (b) how not to proceed when in power (c) how to proceed when in power (d) overall pros and cons of the ends of wielding power

18. The impressive length of sentence 1, par. 2 ("The causes . . . disasters") of Essay 17 ("Of Superstition") mainly helps Bacon to: (a) persuade (b) catalog (c) defend (d) reprove

19. The main extended metaphor in par. 2 of Essay 17 is: (a) astronomical (b) antiquarian (c) alimentary (d) apiary (e) anacreontic

20. To provide examples in Essay 33 ("Of Plantations") Bacon uses sentences that are: (a) long (b) short (c) both long and short (d) almost all middle length

21. Part of Bacon's prose style and thought process, as evidenced in S4P1 ("For else . . ."), S3P2 ("For wheat, barley . . ."), and S3P3 ("Let not the government . . .") in Essay 33 involves the stylistic device of: (a) antithesis (b) aposiopesis (c) asyndeton (d) apposition

22. The subject of Essay 37 (of the 59) ("Of Masques and Triumphs") would be of most interest to the dramatist: (a) Christopher Marlowe (b) Ben Jonson (c) John Webster (d) William Shakespeare

23. The brevity of the concluding sentence of Essay 37 (sentence 2 of par. 2) helps convey Bacon's tone of: (a) impartiality (b) commendation (c) veneration (d) annoyance

24. The repetition of "It is . . ." constructions in Essay 47 (of the 59) ("Of Negotiating" or "Of Negociating") (sentences 1, 4, 7, 8) is a stylistic device (check a good composition handbook) known as: (a) the expletive construction (b) the object complement (c) the elliptical construction (d) the absolute construction

25. The effect of this repeated construction in Essay 47 is the creation of a tone of: (a) warmth (b) colloquialism (c) impersonality (d) doubtfulness

26. In sentence 5 ("They perfect nature . . . ") of Essay 50 (of the 59) ("Of Studies"), Bacon uses all the following stylistic devices or figures of speech except which one: (a) ploce (b) understatement (c) simile (d) metaphor

27. The total number of sentences that have series of three or more items in them in Essay 50 is: (a) four (b) six (c) eight (d) ten

28. The special relevance of the two immediately preceding questions is in part the suggestion that the essay's author: (a) especially endorses reading poetry (b) especially endorses reading novels like John Lyly's Euphues (c) has succeeded in the essay's subject (d) continually alludes to Trinitarian religious symbolism