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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Greed.
(b) Crime and poverty.
(c) Reason and politeness.
(d) War.

2. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The civilizing force of discipline.
(b) The nurturing force of the environment.
(c) The damaging force of society.
(d) The therapeutic force of society.

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

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?
(a) As the era of statistical analysis.
(b) As the era of supply and demand.
(c) As the Era of Model Building.
(d) As the era of international debt.

5. What problem does Wilson attribute to failures in the social sciences?
(a) Failure to remedy the inequality between the classes.
(b) Failure to regulate industry.
(c) Failure to foresee the collapse of the welfare state.
(d) Failure to react to environmental disasters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

2. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?

3. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?

4. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

5. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?

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