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

2. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?
(a) Academic research involves similar intellectual work no matter the field.
(b) Each field bolsters reasoning in other fields.
(c) Fields need to have unified sources of funding.
(d) Fields have their own unique disciplines.

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

4. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Theories.
(c) Something real.
(d) Mathematics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?

2. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

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

4. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

5. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?

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