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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between primary and secondary emotions?
(a) Primary emotions are conscious, secondary emotions are instinctual.
(b) Primary emotions are deliberate, secondary emotions are unconscious.
(c) Primary emotions are inborn, secondary emotions are personal.
(d) Primary emotions are tied to instincts, secondary emotions are tied to homeostatic regulation.

2. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?
(a) The centrality of math in knowledge.
(b) The impossibility of any unified theories.
(c) The unity of branches of knowledge.
(d) The unity of complex phenomena.

3. What did Condorcet pioneer?
(a) The application of statistics to politics.
(b) The application of math in social science.
(c) The development of statistical models for economics.
(d) The notion of innate human rights.

4. What does Wilson call the discrete pieces of evidence?
(a) Researching molecules.
(b) Nitty gritty facts.
(c) Atomic evidence.
(d) The raw materials.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?

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

5. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

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