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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?
(a) Hydraulics, and the ability to transfer power.
(b) Optics, and the ability to measure.
(c) Generators, and the ability to create power.
(d) Vaccines, and the ability to heal.

2. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of infant sexual experience.
(b) The role of the self's desire for power.
(c) The role of original traumas.
(d) The role of the unconscious.

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) Streamlined education.
(b) New fields of exploration.
(c) A better understanding of ourselves.
(d) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.

4. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The abolition of slavery in the New World.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?

2. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?

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

4. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?

5. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?

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