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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilson say he was searching for as a young man?
(a) Mythical experience.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Objective reality.
(d) Meaning.

2. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?
(a) The impossibility of any unified theories.
(b) The unity of branches of knowledge.
(c) The unity of complex phenomena.
(d) The centrality of math in knowledge.

3. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?
(a) It came to him in a dream.
(b) He revitalized it.
(c) He discovered it in his research.
(d) He coined it.

4. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?
(a) Academic research involves similar intellectual work no matter the field.
(b) Fields have their own unique disciplines.
(c) Fields need to have unified sources of funding.
(d) Each field bolsters reasoning in other fields.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?

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

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

4. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?

5. What did Laplace pioneer?

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