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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) Philosophy.
(b) Humanities.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Arts.

2. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?
(a) He revitalized it.
(b) It came to him in a dream.
(c) He discovered it in his research.
(d) He coined it.

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

4. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the material world.

5. What does Wilson say he was searching for as a young man?
(a) Mythical experience.
(b) Objective reality.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Meaning.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

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

5. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?

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