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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science can show us how our impressions are created by our feelings.
(b) Science can expand the limits of what we can see.
(c) Science can reveal the extent of human powerlessness.
(d) Science can give us better stories to tell about psychological nature.

2. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By examining their environment.
(b) By reconstructing them from cells.
(c) By examining their organization.
(d) By seeing their evolution.

3. What has research on the mind had to focus on?
(a) Behavior.
(b) The spirit.
(c) The working brain.
(d) The soul.

4. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?
(a) Mythologies.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Languages.
(d) Galaxies.

5. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It ended the importance of religion.
(b) It changed the social order among men.
(c) It changed the classification of animals.
(d) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?

2. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?

3. How does consilience work?

4. How do nerve cells in the brain connect?

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

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