Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Test | Final Test - Easy

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Wilson offer as evidence of thinkers affected by the concept of natural rights?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Robespierre.

2. What does natural consilience connect?
(a) Language and culture.
(b) Language and genetics.
(c) Heredity and culture.
(d) Time and change.

3. What is the weakness of the current era of economics, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) It is too focused on the micro-analysis.
(b) It cannot predict all human behaviors.
(c) It relies on too few variables.
(d) It is grounded in untenable assumptions.

4. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?
(a) They are more complex than physics.
(b) They can be unraveled by computers.
(c) They can be eliminated through military science.
(d) They can be modeled by animal cultures.

5. What does the concept of God do, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Open the mind to what is beyond it.
(b) Clarify man's relationship with things whose origins are inexplicable.
(c) Unify the sciences and humanities.
(d) Ground the mind in its source.

6. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) It is dominated by scientists who deny anthropology's genetic aspect.
(b) It is run by social scientists who attribute everything to genetics.
(c) It is divided into two irreconcilable branches, neither of which resolve the question of diversity.
(d) It is not funded well enough.

7. How do widely distributed cultural traits affect genes?
(a) They allow the genes that predispose them to evolve.
(b) They bolster the genes that predispose them.
(c) They limit the expression of genes responsible for less-widely distributed cultural traits.
(d) They prevent the spread of other cultural traits and other genes.

8. Why does Edmund Wilson say that human existence in the future will depend on ethics?
(a) Because evolution favors contract formation.
(b) Because the alternative to self-extinction is preserving the others around the self.
(c) Because empathy will prevent exploitation.
(d) Because people will only work together once they can frame the problems.

9. How many billion people live in absolute poverty, at the time of Wilson's writing?
(a) One.
(b) One half.
(c) One and a half.
(d) Two.

10. What will the combination of the arts and sciences ultimately create?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) The revelation of the source of creativity.
(c) The genetic source of imagination.
(d) The evolution of the brain.

11. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science.
(b) Myths.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Narratives.

12. How many disorders are caused by genes?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 120.
(d) 12,000.

13. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?
(a) It provides evidence of aristocracy.
(b) It tests the laws.
(c) It produces scapegoats and criminals.
(d) It produces heroes and giants.

14. How does Edmund Wilson define ethics?
(a) As a code of principles.
(b) As a set of unspoken prohibitions.
(c) As a series of taboos.
(d) As a set of universal laws.

15. What is the problem with sociology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) It avoids analysis.
(b) It is grounded in badly-understood genetic science.
(c) It is founded in statistics.
(d) It relies on untrustworthy models for its measurements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How, in Edmund Wilson's account, was moral reasoning affected by natural science?

2. What does Edmund Wilson say is the logic behind consilience?

3. What causes economic theories to fail, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

4. How many billion people can the earth sustain, theoretically?

5. What causes a change in traits?

(see the answer keys)

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