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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Branches of Learning.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it is implicit.
(b) He says it can only be known through language.
(c) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.
(d) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
2. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?
(a) He embraced it but insisted on the ability to hold exclusive beliefs.
(b) He tried to reconcile his science with his faith.
(c) He maintained his faith in spite of his scientific research.
(d) He rejected literal interpretation of the Bible.
3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(b) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.
(c) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(d) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.
4. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Materialism.
5. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Philosophy and evolution.
(b) Epistemology and religion.
(c) Evolution and genetics.
(d) Classification and evolution.
Short Answer Questions
1. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
2. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?
3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
4. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?
5. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?
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