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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Branches of Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(b) To separate humanities from natural science.
(c) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(d) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.

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

3. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In epistemology.
(b) In social sciences and humanities.
(c) In the history of knowledge.
(d) In religion.

4. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Materialism.

5. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Classification and evolution.
(b) Epistemology and religion.
(c) Evolution and genetics.
(d) Philosophy and evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?

2. What did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?

3. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?

4. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

5. What is consilience?

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