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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 does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Theories.
(c) Something real.
(d) Mathematics.

2. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Fragmented.
(b) Irreconcilable.
(c) Unified.
(d) Interconnected.

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

4. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) Napoleon rose to power.
(b) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(c) The French went to war with Russia.
(d) The French undermined their own revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?

2. What methods did Descartes use in his work?

3. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

4. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?

5. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?

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