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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 did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The use of statistics in politics.
(b) The use of telescopes in astronomy.
(c) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(d) The use of probability in physics.

2. What does Wilson call sociology?
(a) The study of conflict between societies.
(b) The study of society.
(c) The study of complex societies.
(d) The study of simple society.

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

4. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?
(a) They used statistics to model mass behaviors.
(b) They examined social behaviors as individual activities.
(c) They used science to analyze motives and trends in the mass.
(d) They described production as the result of supply and demand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

2. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?

3. What did Condorcet pioneer?

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

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

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