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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1752.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1743.

2. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1789.

3. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) Condorcet.
(b) Locke.
(c) de Sade.
(d) Rousseau.

4. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?
(a) They can be modeled by animal cultures.
(b) They can be eliminated through military science.
(c) They are more complex than physics.
(d) They can be unraveled by computers.

5. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(b) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
(c) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.
(d) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?

2. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?

3. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?

4. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

5. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

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