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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 methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Experiential learning and induction.
(b) Induction and synthesis.
(c) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(d) Deduction and analysis.

2. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Irreconcilable.
(b) Fragmented.
(c) Interconnected.
(d) Unified.

3. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1789.

4. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Southern Baptism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

5. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The birth of Wordsworth.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The death of de Sade.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?

4. What did Laplace pioneer?

5. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

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