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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?
(a) It tried to improve educational opportunities.
(b) It led to the rise of Napoleon.
(c) It concentrated wealth in a small group's hands.
(d) It appropriated church lands for the people.

2. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(b) The French undermined their own revolution.
(c) The French went to war with Russia.
(d) Napoleon rose to power.

3. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The nurturing force of the environment.
(b) The therapeutic force of society.
(c) The civilizing force of discipline.
(d) The damaging force of society.

4. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?
(a) In the fore-brain.
(b) In the mid-brain.
(c) In the hind-brain.
(d) There is no center of consciousness.

5. How many cells comprise the brain?
(a) 1 trillion.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 100 billion.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision was effectively made in human evolution as the brain found its present size?

2. What does Wilson call sociology?

3. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?

4. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?

5. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?

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