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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 effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(b) It changed the classification of animals.
(c) It ended the importance of religion.
(d) It changed the social order among men.

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

3. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(b) He says it can only be known through language.
(c) He says it is implicit.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

4. Where did Wilson develop the idea of unified learning?
(a) In his research on ants.
(b) During his science studies.
(c) In his writings on religion.
(d) During his childhood.

5. What does science use as proof of a theory?
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Phenomena witnessed by neutral observers.
(c) Repeated experiments.
(d) Natural laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?

2. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

3. What is reductionism?

4. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

5. What religion was Wilson born into?

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