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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 not been useful.
(b) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(c) It has opened new fields.
(d) It has created the conditions for unification.

2. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?
(a) Unify space, time and motion.
(b) Locate the missing mass in the universe.
(c) Find the singularity at the beginning of the universe.
(d) Express the universe in a mathematical formula.

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) Streamlined education.
(b) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.
(c) New fields of exploration.
(d) A better understanding of ourselves.

4. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?
(a) Plato.
(b) Solon.
(c) Thales of Miletus.
(d) Socrates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

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

3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

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

5. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

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