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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(b) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.
(c) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.
(d) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.

3. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Lamarck.
(b) Linnaeus.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Van Buren.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

2. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

3. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?

4. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?

5. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

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