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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 American Revolution.
(b) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(c) The abolition of slavery in the New World.
(d) The French Revolution.

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

3. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1794.

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

5. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Synapses.
(c) Neurons.
(d) Axons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?

2. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?

3. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

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

5. Why does Wilson say that the concept of evolutionary progress is not easily defined?

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