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

2. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In philosophy.
(b) In politics.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In the future.

3. 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) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.
(d) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.

4. 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 have a mutually supportive role.
(d) They obfuscate each other's work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?

2. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?

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

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

5. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

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