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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 that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(b) He says it is implicit.
(c) He says it can only be known through language.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

2. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Unified.
(b) Irreconcilable.
(c) Fragmented.
(d) Interconnected.

3. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It changed the classification of animals.
(b) It ended the importance of religion.
(c) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(d) It changed the social order among men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?

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

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