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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In social sciences and humanities.
(b) In the history of knowledge.
(c) In religion.
(d) In epistemology.

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

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

4. Where did Wilson develop the idea of unified learning?
(a) In his writings on religion.
(b) In his research on ants.
(c) During his science studies.
(d) During his childhood.

5. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?
(a) How they were subsidized by communities or nations.
(b) How they were supported by an entire society.
(c) How they were organized.
(d) How they were close brotherhoods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

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

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

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

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