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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 political movement did Condorcet inspire?
(a) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(b) The abolition of slavery in the New World.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The French Revolution.

2. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?
(a) The molecular work on the brain has completely surpassed anything Descartes theorized.
(b) Descartes sense of consciousness' abstraction has been embraced by scientists who practice consilience.
(c) Modern science has centered on the role of doubt in awareness.
(d) Descartes' dualism has been rejected.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?

2. What did Condorcet pioneer?

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

4. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?

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

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