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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
(b) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.
(c) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(d) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.

4. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(b) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(c) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.
(d) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.

5. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?

2. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

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

4. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?

5. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

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