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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was complexity theory formed?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1950s.

2. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They obfuscate each other's work.
(b) They are not related.
(c) They misinterpret each other's work.
(d) They have a mutually supportive role.

3. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?
(a) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.
(b) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.
(c) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(d) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.

4. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) New fields of exploration.
(b) A better understanding of ourselves.
(c) Streamlined education.
(d) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.

5. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) The French went to war with Russia.
(b) The French undermined their own revolution.
(c) Napoleon rose to power.
(d) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?

2. How does consilience help us understand organisms?

3. What is reductionism?

4. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

5. How does Wilson describe ant colonies?

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