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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 is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(b) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(c) To separate humanities from natural science.
(d) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Condorcet pioneer?

2. What is reductionism?

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

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

5. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?

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