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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?
(a) Languages.
(b) Mythologies.
(c) Cultures.
(d) Galaxies.

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.
(b) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(c) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.
(d) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.

3. What does Wilson call the discrete pieces of evidence?
(a) Researching molecules.
(b) Nitty gritty facts.
(c) The raw materials.
(d) Atomic evidence.

4. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They can be discarded if disproved.
(b) They are made to define eternal laws.
(c) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.
(d) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.

5. What does science use as proof of a theory?
(a) Phenomena witnessed by neutral observers.
(b) Repeated experiments.
(c) Natural laws.
(d) Hypotheses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?

2. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

3. What did Condorcet pioneer?

4. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

5. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?

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