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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it is implicit.
(b) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(c) He says it can only be known through language.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

2. What did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The use of telescopes in astronomy.
(b) The use of statistics in politics.
(c) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(d) The use of probability in physics.

3. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has not been useful.
(b) It has created the conditions for unification.
(c) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(d) It has opened new fields.

4. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Van Buren.
(b) Lamarck.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Linnaeus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?

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

3. What religion was Wilson born into?

4. What is consilience?

5. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

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