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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 does Edmund Wilson say cultures are made of?
(a) The highest expressions of symbolic language in art.
(b) Linked compositions of myths and symbols.
(c) Genetic pools.
(d) Groups of language users.

2. What is the problem with sociology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) It relies on untrustworthy models for its measurements.
(b) It avoids analysis.
(c) It is founded in statistics.
(d) It is grounded in badly-understood genetic science.

3. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?
(a) In the mid-brain.
(b) There is no center of consciousness.
(c) In the fore-brain.
(d) In the hind-brain.

4. What does Wilson offer as evidence of cross-cultural epi-genetic rules?
(a) Mating rituals.
(b) Regional cuisine.
(c) Councils.
(d) Myths.

5. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?
(a) He sees the role of blind chance marring the evolutionary record.
(b) He sees a tendency toward complexity.
(c) He sees a tendency toward adaptation to environment.
(d) He sees a punctuated equilibrium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?

2. What does natural selection provide for a species?

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

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

5. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?

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