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

2. What is critical to the development of culture, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Artistic complexities.
(b) Linguistic complexities.
(c) Genetic complexities.
(d) Environmental complexities.

3. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?
(a) Questions about things beyond our auditory range.
(b) Questions about the mind's capabilities.
(c) Questions about the effect of environment on individuals.
(d) Questions about the nature of matter.

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

5. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?
(a) The history of things.
(b) Change over time.
(c) The state of grace.
(d) The world in its true state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson distinguish between?

2. What decision was effectively made in human evolution as the brain found its present size?

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

4. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?

5. What evolution creates culture?

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