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

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

3. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(b) The idea of inevitable progress.
(c) The idea of natural rights.
(d) The idea mystical states.

4. How do nurturists see the evolution of culture?
(a) As result of language.
(b) As a result of environment.
(c) As a complex interplay of environment and language.
(d) As a result of genetics.

5. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?
(a) Generators, and the ability to create power.
(b) Vaccines, and the ability to heal.
(c) Hydraulics, and the ability to transfer power.
(d) Optics, and the ability to measure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?

3. What does Wilson distinguish between?

4. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?

5. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?

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