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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. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They can be discarded if disproved.
(b) They are made to define eternal laws.
(c) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.
(d) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.

2. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The birth of Wordsworth.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The death of de Sade.

3. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(b) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(c) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(d) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

2. How many disorders are caused by genes?

3. How many cells comprise the brain?

4. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?

5. What methods did Descartes use in his work?

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