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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The present moment.
(b) The causes beneath their actions.
(c) The urgency of nature.
(d) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.

2. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of the self's desire for power.
(b) The role of infant sexual experience.
(c) The role of original traumas.
(d) The role of the unconscious.

3. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?
(a) Thales of Miletus.
(b) Solon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

4. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?
(a) When REM begins.
(b) When serotonin is released in the brain.
(c) When certain chemicals decrease in the brain.
(d) When tryptophan is released in the brain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?

2. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?

3. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

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

5. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?

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