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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 divorce the natural science from social sciences.
(b) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(c) To separate humanities from natural science.
(d) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it can only be known through language.
(b) He says it is implicit.
(c) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.
(d) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.

3. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?
(a) Locate the missing mass in the universe.
(b) Find the singularity at the beginning of the universe.
(c) Express the universe in a mathematical formula.
(d) Unify space, time and motion.

4. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?
(a) That it can bring more peace to political conflicts.
(b) That it can resolve issues the sciences cannot answer.
(c) That scientific solutions are incomplete without the humanities.
(d) That it can reduce the need for science.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

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

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

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

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

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