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

2. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?
(a) The integration of historical will and individual will.
(b) The unification knowledge.
(c) The separation of mind and matter.
(d) Universal peace.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?

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

3. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

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

5. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?

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