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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To What End?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?
(a) He didn't test his hypotheses.
(b) He uses mental patients for his experiments.
(c) He experimented with cocaine.
(d) He was monomaniacally focused on childhood sexual trauma.

2. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Arts.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Humanities.

3. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?
(a) Military organization.
(b) Systematics.
(c) Systems theory.
(d) Dianetics.

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

5. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?
(a) How they were organized.
(b) How they were subsidized by communities or nations.
(c) How they were supported by an entire society.
(d) How they were close brotherhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has research on the mind had to focus on?

2. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

3. What did all Enlightenment thinkers have in common, according to Wilson?

4. What does natural consilience connect?

5. Where does Edmund Wilson say consilience is beneficial?

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