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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 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 nature of divinity.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.

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

3. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1742.

4. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The nurturing force of the environment.
(b) The therapeutic force of society.
(c) The damaging force of society.
(d) The civilizing force of discipline.

5. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?
(a) Change over time.
(b) The history of things.
(c) The state of grace.
(d) The world in its true state.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?

3. What does science use as proof of a theory?

4. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?

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

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