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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 distinguish between?
(a) Science and ethics.
(b) Science and religion.
(c) Religion and myth.
(d) Science and pseudo-science.

2. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In philosophy.
(b) In the future.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In politics.

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

4. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it is implicit.
(b) He says it can only be known through language.
(c) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

5. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?

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

3. What religion was Wilson born into?

4. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

5. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?

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