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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?
(a) The unification knowledge.
(b) The separation of mind and matter.
(c) Universal peace.
(d) The integration of historical will and individual will.

2. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Axons.
(c) Neurons.
(d) Synapses.

3. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(b) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
(c) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.
(d) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.

4. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(b) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(c) To separate humanities from natural science.
(d) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.

5. How does Wilson explain the ideal scientist's work ethic?
(a) Think like children, work like fathers.
(b) Think like poets, work like bookkeepers.
(c) Think like eagles, work like ants.
(d) Think like whales, work like minnows.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

3. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?

4. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?

5. What did Enlightenment thinkers tried to link, in Wilson's account?

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