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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. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?
(a) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.
(b) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(c) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.
(d) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.

2. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?
(a) Languages.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Mythologies.
(d) Galaxies.

3. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By reconstructing them from cells.
(b) By examining their environment.
(c) By seeing their evolution.
(d) By examining their organization.

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

5. What purpose does Wilson say dreams serve?
(a) Giving the self access to the collective unconscious.
(b) Telling the conscious self about the doings of its unconscious.
(c) Improving responses relevant to survival.
(d) Developing the soul through cathexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?

2. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?

3. What does Wilson say matters in science?

4. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?

5. What do the arts do that makes them different from the sciences, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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