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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 was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?
(a) It came to him in a dream.
(b) He coined it.
(c) He revitalized it.
(d) He discovered it in his research.

2. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In epistemology.
(b) In social sciences and humanities.
(c) In the history of knowledge.
(d) In religion.

3. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.

4. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?
(a) Narcolepsy.
(b) Catatonia.
(c) Tourette's syndrome.
(d) Hyper-religiosity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?

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

3. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?

4. How does Wilson explain the ideal scientist's work ethic?

5. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

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