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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does consilience work?
(a) By providing different models for the same behavior.
(b) By providing a context and a practical consequence to each scientific study.
(c) By breaking things down and putting them back together.
(d) By making science relevant to the humanities.

2. Why does Wilson take up the example of dreams?
(a) To show that Freud's unscientific methods make his assumptions wrong.
(b) To demonstrate man's different ways of knowing.
(c) To demonstrate the correct way to analyze brain chemicals.
(d) To show that Freud discovered things he didn't understand himself.

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

4. According to complexity theory, what is the result of living on the edge of chaos?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Extinction.
(c) Escalation.
(d) Experimentation.

5. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The damaging force of society.
(b) The civilizing force of discipline.
(c) The therapeutic force of society.
(d) The nurturing force of the environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?

2. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?

3. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?

4. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?

5. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

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