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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 he was searching for as a young man?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Mythical experience.
(d) Objective reality.

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

3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(b) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.
(c) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(d) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.

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

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 evolution of species.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

2. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?

3. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

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

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

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