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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Genes to Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Experiential learning and induction.
(b) Deduction and analysis.
(c) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(d) Induction and synthesis.

2. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?
(a) Sleep and arousal.
(b) Primitive desires.
(c) Eating and moving.
(d) Reason.

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

4. What does Wilson say matters in science?
(a) Final results.
(b) Publications.
(c) Hypothesis.
(d) Paradigm shifts.

5. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.
(b) To separate humanities from natural science.
(c) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(d) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

3. What is reductionism?

4. What did Laplace pioneer?

5. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

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