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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arts and their Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.
(b) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.
(c) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(d) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.

3. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In the future.
(b) In politics.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In philosophy.

4. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of the unconscious.
(b) The role of infant sexual experience.
(c) The role of original traumas.
(d) The role of the self's desire for power.

5. Wilson defines culture in terms of what?
(a) Genes.
(b) Environment.
(c) Language.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?

2. What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account?

3. What does Wilson call the discrete pieces of evidence?

4. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?

5. When was complexity theory formed?

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