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

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

3. What is consilience?
(a) An agreed approach to different subjects.
(b) An underlying pattern that tends toward unification.
(c) A proposal for reorganizing departments of knowledge.
(d) A historical basis for unifying fields of study.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?

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

4. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?

5. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

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