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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What problem does Wilson attribute to failures in the social sciences?
(a) Failure to remedy the inequality between the classes.
(b) Failure to react to environmental disasters.
(c) Failure to foresee the collapse of the welfare state.
(d) Failure to regulate industry.

3. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1776.

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?
(a) As the Era of Model Building.
(b) As the era of statistical analysis.
(c) As the era of international debt.
(d) As the era of supply and demand.

5. Why does Wilson say that the concept of evolutionary progress is not easily defined?
(a) Because it is impossible to predict what conditions will be, and how they will require adaptation.
(b) Because the goal of evolution is clear to individuals but not to the race as a whole.
(c) Because evolution does not have a goal.
(d) Because the historical record is unclear, and because the present moment is still chaotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the human brain weigh on average?

2. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?

3. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?

4. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

5. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?

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