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

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

3. Where did Wilson develop the idea of unified learning?
(a) During his science studies.
(b) During his childhood.
(c) In his writings on religion.
(d) In his research on ants.

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents man's tragic nature.
(b) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.
(c) It represents man's daring.
(d) It represents the value of learning over freedom.

5. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Southern Baptism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

3. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

4. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?

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

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