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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 philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Transcendentalism.
(d) Materialism.

2. What is the weakness of the current era of economics, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) It is grounded in untenable assumptions.
(b) It cannot predict all human behaviors.
(c) It relies on too few variables.
(d) It is too focused on the micro-analysis.

3. Where do science and the arts both originate, according to Wilson?
(a) In religion.
(b) In language.
(c) In the genes.
(d) In the imagination.

4. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(b) It has opened new fields.
(c) It has created the conditions for unification.
(d) It has not been useful.

5. What role does Wilson ascribe to human nature?
(a) Changing what genetic expressions mean.
(b) Connecting genes to nature.
(c) Changing how genes create environments.
(d) Changing how language expresses genetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?

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

3. When was Condorcet born?

4. What is critical to the development of culture, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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

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