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

2. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?
(a) Primitive desires.
(b) Eating and moving.
(c) Sleep and arousal.
(d) Reason.

3. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The death of de Sade.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The birth of Wordsworth.
(d) The French Revolution.

4. What does status give a man power to do, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Have more offspring.
(b) Have more money.
(c) Have more influence.
(d) Have more wives.

5. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) Racial supremacy.
(b) Human rights.
(c) Diplomacy.
(d) European supremacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evolution creates culture?

2. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say is the logic behind consilience?

4. What causes a change in traits?

5. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?

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