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

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

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

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents man's daring.
(b) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.
(c) It represents the value of learning over freedom.
(d) It represents man's tragic nature.

5. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?
(a) In politicians' thinking.
(b) In experts in each field or region.
(c) In popular consensus.
(d) In majority rule.

Short Answer Questions

1. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

2. Where did Wilson develop the idea of unified learning?

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

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

5. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?

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