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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has created the conditions for unification.
(b) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(c) It has not been useful.
(d) It has opened new fields.

2. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1752.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1776.

3. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?
(a) That it can reduce the need for science.
(b) That it can bring more peace to political conflicts.
(c) That it can resolve issues the sciences cannot answer.
(d) That scientific solutions are incomplete without the humanities.

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

5. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?
(a) Universal peace.
(b) The unification knowledge.
(c) The integration of historical will and individual will.
(d) The separation of mind and matter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?

4. What did Laplace pioneer?

5. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?

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