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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 methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Experiential learning and induction.
(b) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(c) Induction and synthesis.
(d) Deduction and analysis.

2. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Lamarck.
(c) Van Buren.
(d) Linnaeus.

3. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?
(a) Compassion and empathy.
(b) Curiosity and creativity.
(c) Mathematics and industrialism.
(d) Justice and equality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?

2. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

3. What power does Wilson attribute to men who control large amounts of territory?

4. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

5. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?

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