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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 causes a change in traits?
(a) Mutation of several genes, plus an environmental change.
(b) Environmental changes that make a trait more desirable.
(c) The process of survival that makes a new trait more common.
(d) Mutation of one gene.

2. Why does Wilson take up the example of dreams?
(a) To show that Freud's unscientific methods make his assumptions wrong.
(b) To show that Freud discovered things he didn't understand himself.
(c) To demonstrate man's different ways of knowing.
(d) To demonstrate the correct way to analyze brain chemicals.

3. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) It is dominated by scientists who deny anthropology's genetic aspect.
(b) It is divided into two irreconcilable branches, neither of which resolve the question of diversity.
(c) It is run by social scientists who attribute everything to genetics.
(d) It is not funded well enough.

4. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The present moment.
(b) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(c) The causes beneath their actions.
(d) The urgency of nature.

5. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Crime and poverty.
(b) Reason and politeness.
(c) Greed.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the human brain weigh on average?

2. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?

4. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?

5. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?

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