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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. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1776.

2. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Arts.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Philosophy.

3. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Humanities.
(b) Myths.
(c) Science.
(d) Narratives.

4. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) The French went to war with Russia.
(b) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(c) Napoleon rose to power.
(d) The French undermined their own revolution.

5. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The present moment.
(b) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(c) The urgency of nature.
(d) The causes beneath their actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

2. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?

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

4. What did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?

5. What would need to be true before we could establish the goals and progress of evolutionary processes, in Wilson's account?

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