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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariadne's Thread.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1776.

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

4. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By reconstructing them from cells.
(b) By examining their environment.
(c) By seeing their evolution.
(d) By examining their organization.

5. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?
(a) Belief in the multiplicity of forms.
(b) Belief in a historical process.
(c) Belief in a transcendent spirit.
(d) Belief in the unity of species.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?

2. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?

3. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?

4. Why does Wilson take up the example of dreams?

5. What is the goal, in Wilson's account, of molecular research on human cells?

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