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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 give us better stories to tell about psychological nature.
(b) Science can show us how our impressions are created by our feelings.
(c) Science can expand the limits of what we can see.
(d) Science can reveal the extent of human powerlessness.

2. How many genes does the brain consist of?
(a) 71, 145.
(b) 3,195.
(c) 4,282.
(d) 1,019.

3. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Order.

4. How much does the human brain weigh on average?
(a) Three pounds.
(b) Two pounds.
(c) Five pounds.
(d) Four pounds.

5. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?
(a) He revitalized it.
(b) He discovered it in his research.
(c) He coined it.
(d) It came to him in a dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

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

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

4. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?

5. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

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