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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Natural Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Crime and poverty.
(b) Greed.
(c) War.
(d) Reason and politeness.

2. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Material and ideal.
(b) Concept and fact.
(c) Natural science and social science.
(d) Past and future.

3. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Order.
(d) Freedom.

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

5. What is consilience?
(a) A historical basis for unifying fields of study.
(b) An underlying pattern that tends toward unification.
(c) A proposal for reorganizing departments of knowledge.
(d) An agreed approach to different subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?

2. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?

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

4. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?

5. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?

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