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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Condorcet.
(d) de Sade.

2. What did Condorcet pioneer?
(a) The development of statistical models for economics.
(b) The application of math in social science.
(c) The notion of innate human rights.
(d) The application of statistics to politics.

3. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) The French undermined their own revolution.
(b) Napoleon rose to power.
(c) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(d) The French went to war with Russia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

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

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