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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 does Wilson distinguish between?
(a) Science and religion.
(b) Science and pseudo-science.
(c) Science and ethics.
(d) Religion and myth.

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

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

4. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
(b) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.
(c) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(d) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.

5. How many cells comprise the brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) 1 trillion.
(c) 100 billion.
(d) 100 million.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?

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

4. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?

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

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