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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arts and their Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many genes does the brain consist of?
(a) 71, 145.
(b) 3,195.
(c) 1,019.
(d) 4,282.

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

3. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?
(a) A discussion of the equality of genders.
(b) A discussion of the conscience and society.
(c) A discussion of the inevitability of progress.
(d) A discussion of the unity of sciences.

4. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?
(a) Belief in a historical process.
(b) Belief in a transcendent spirit.
(c) Belief in the multiplicity of forms.
(d) Belief in the unity of species.

5. What does Edmund Wilson say is the purpose of the social science?
(a) To reveal the hidden meanings in people's actions.
(b) To demonstrate how to conquer other cultures.
(c) To provide a way to control the future.
(d) To Keep suppressed cultures alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion was Wilson born into?

2. What does Edmund Wilson say cultures are made of?

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

4. How do widely distributed cultural traits affect genes?

5. What methods did Descartes use in his work?

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