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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 does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?
(a) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(b) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.
(c) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.
(d) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.

2. What are epigenetic rules?
(a) The process of selecting which genes are most desirable in an environment.
(b) The language in which culture expresses itself.
(c) Influences that affect the expression of genes.
(d) The cultural effect on genetic expression.

3. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) In refusing to accept statistical modeling of individual behavior.
(b) In rooting creativity in social behavior.
(c) In describing the brain as chaotic.
(d) In describing the arts as strictly cultural.

4. What is the social cost of violating the incest taboo?
(a) Legal punishment.
(b) Failure to adapt and survive.
(c) Unfit offspring.
(d) Disenfranchisement.

5. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?
(a) Funding.
(b) Relationships with the humanities.
(c) Purpose and drive.
(d) Unity and vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?

2. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

3. What would need to be true before we could establish the goals and progress of evolutionary processes, in Wilson's account?

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

5. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?

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