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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 distinguish between?
(a) Science and ethics.
(b) Science and pseudo-science.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Religion and myth.

2. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) Human rights.
(b) Racial supremacy.
(c) European supremacy.
(d) Diplomacy.

3. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?
(a) Mathematics and industrialism.
(b) Compassion and empathy.
(c) Curiosity and creativity.
(d) Justice and equality.

4. What did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(b) The use of telescopes in astronomy.
(c) The use of statistics in politics.
(d) The use of probability in physics.

5. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) A better understanding of ourselves.
(b) New fields of exploration.
(c) Streamlined education.
(d) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

4. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

5. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?

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