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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. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?
(a) Systems theory.
(b) Military organization.
(c) Systematics.
(d) Dianetics.

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

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

4. 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 can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

3. What religion was Wilson born into?

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

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

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