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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. What is the goal, in Wilson's account, of molecular research on human cells?
(a) Producing organs.
(b) Discovering new life forms.
(c) Curing cancer.
(d) Recreating human tissue from cell cultures.

2. What did Condorcet pioneer?
(a) The application of math in social science.
(b) The development of statistical models for economics.
(c) The application of statistics to politics.
(d) The notion of innate human rights.

3. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science can expand the limits of what we can see.
(b) Science can show us how our impressions are created by our feelings.
(c) Science can give us better stories to tell about psychological nature.
(d) Science can reveal the extent of human powerlessness.

4. How do hereditarians see the evolution of culture?
(a) As a change in brain chemistry.
(b) As the result of environmental factors.
(c) As an emergence of the world spirit.
(d) As the result of nature.

5. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?
(a) In behavior.
(b) In real-time analysis.
(c) In snapshots.
(d) In limited experiments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What methods did Descartes use in his work?

2. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

3. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

4. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

5. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?

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