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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) 1752.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1776.

2. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.

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

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

5. 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) Express the universe in a mathematical formula.
(d) Find the singularity at the beginning of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did Wilson develop the idea of unified learning?

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