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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The birth of Wordsworth.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The death of de Sade.

2. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(b) It changed the social order among men.
(c) It changed the classification of animals.
(d) It ended the importance of religion.

3. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(b) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.
(c) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(d) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.

4. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Interconnected.
(b) Irreconcilable.
(c) Unified.
(d) Fragmented.

5. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?
(a) The abolition of slavery in the New World.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(d) The French Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

2. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?

4. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

5. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

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