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

2. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) Human rights.
(b) Diplomacy.
(c) European supremacy.
(d) Racial supremacy.

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

4. What would need to be true before we could establish the goals and progress of evolutionary processes, in Wilson's account?
(a) We would have to know the future of our race.
(b) We would have to have tools that would let us predict how random acts would play out.
(c) We would need to know that evolution tended toward increase complexity.
(d) The human race would have to have been obliterated like the dinosaurs.

5. What has research on the mind had to focus on?
(a) The soul.
(b) Behavior.
(c) The working brain.
(d) The spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the nerve cells in the brain called?

2. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?

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

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

5. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?

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