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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 modern definition of dreams?
(a) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(b) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.
(c) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.
(d) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.

2. What methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Induction and synthesis.
(b) Experiential learning and induction.
(c) Deduction and analysis.
(d) Hypothesis and experimentation.

3. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?
(a) Mathematics and industrialism.
(b) Compassion and empathy.
(c) Justice and equality.
(d) Curiosity and creativity.

4. What does Wilson say he was searching for as a young man?
(a) Mythical experience.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Objective reality.

5. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) European supremacy.
(b) Racial supremacy.
(c) Diplomacy.
(d) Human rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

2. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

3. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?

4. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?

5. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?

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