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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 does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) War.
(b) Crime and poverty.
(c) Reason and politeness.
(d) Greed.

2. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?
(a) They can be modeled by animal cultures.
(b) They are more complex than physics.
(c) They can be unraveled by computers.
(d) They can be eliminated through military science.

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

4. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?
(a) The unification knowledge.
(b) The integration of historical will and individual will.
(c) The separation of mind and matter.
(d) Universal peace.

5. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?
(a) Tourette's syndrome.
(b) Hyper-religiosity.
(c) Catatonia.
(d) Narcolepsy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?

3. How many genes does the brain consist of?

4. When was Condorcet born?

5. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

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