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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 benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(b) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(c) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.
(d) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.

2. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They obfuscate each other's work.
(b) They are not related.
(c) They have a mutually supportive role.
(d) They misinterpret each other's work.

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

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

5. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(b) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(c) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.
(d) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

4. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

5. What did Condorcet pioneer?

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