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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 did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?
(a) Reason and religion.
(b) Science and humanities.
(c) Humanity and philosophy.
(d) Man and animal.

2. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Interesting hypotheses.
(b) Objective truth based on hypothesis.
(c) The mind of God.
(d) Probably hypothesis.

3. What problem does Wilson attribute to failures in the social sciences?
(a) Failure to regulate industry.
(b) Failure to remedy the inequality between the classes.
(c) Failure to foresee the collapse of the welfare state.
(d) Failure to react to environmental disasters.

4. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?
(a) Purpose and drive.
(b) Funding.
(c) Unity and vision.
(d) Relationships with the humanities.

5. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(c) The abolition of slavery in the New World.
(d) The American Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Edmund Wilson say the arts ultimately create?

3. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

4. What decision was effectively made in human evolution as the brain found its present size?

5. What is kin selection?

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