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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1742.

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

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

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. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?

4. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

5. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?

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