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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 subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Arts.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Philosophy.

2. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Southern Baptism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

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

4. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?
(a) How they were close brotherhoods.
(b) How they were organized.
(c) How they were subsidized by communities or nations.
(d) How they were supported by an entire society.

5. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?
(a) The unity of branches of knowledge.
(b) The unity of complex phenomena.
(c) The impossibility of any unified theories.
(d) The centrality of math in knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?

2. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

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

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

5. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?

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