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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 ecology and ethics?
(a) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.
(b) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.
(c) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(d) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it is implicit.
(b) He says it can only be known through language.
(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 is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(b) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.
(c) To separate humanities from natural science.
(d) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.

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

5. 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 equality of genders.
(c) A discussion of the unity of sciences.
(d) A discussion of the inevitability of progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

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

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

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

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