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

2. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?
(a) A discussion of the conscience and society.
(b) A discussion of the inevitability of progress.
(c) A discussion of the equality of genders.
(d) A discussion of the unity of sciences.

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.
(b) A better understanding of ourselves.
(c) Streamlined education.
(d) New fields of exploration.

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

5. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They misinterpret each other's work.
(b) They are not related.
(c) They obfuscate each other's work.
(d) They have a mutually supportive role.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?

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

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