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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 effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(b) It changed the classification of animals.
(c) It ended the importance of religion.
(d) It changed the social order among men.

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

3. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) The French undermined their own revolution.
(b) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(c) The French went to war with Russia.
(d) Napoleon rose to power.

4. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?
(a) He coined it.
(b) He discovered it in his research.
(c) He revitalized it.
(d) It came to him in a dream.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?

2. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

3. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?

4. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

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

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