Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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 power does Wilson attribute to men who control large amounts of territory?
(a) The power to create monopolies.
(b) The power to determine the local economy.
(c) The power to command people's labor.
(d) The power to distribute genes widely.

2. What causes economic theories to fail, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) Reliance on statistical analysis instead of creative synthesis.
(b) Lack of integration with psychology.
(c) Aloofness from the social environment.
(d) Lack of integration with religion.

3. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea of natural rights.
(b) The idea of inevitable progress.
(c) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(d) The idea mystical states.

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents man's tragic nature.
(b) It represents the value of learning over freedom.
(c) It represents man's daring.
(d) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.

5. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As released pheromones.
(b) As electrochemical resonance.
(c) As instinctive teamwork.
(d) As socially conditioned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a change in traits?

2. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

3. When was complexity theory formed?

4. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?

5. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?

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