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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?
(a) In majority rule.
(b) In popular consensus.
(c) In experts in each field or region.
(d) In politicians' thinking.

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

4. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As instinctive teamwork.
(b) As electrochemical resonance.
(c) As socially conditioned.
(d) As released pheromones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?

2. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?

3. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

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

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

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