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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) Condorcet.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) de Sade.
(d) Locke.

2. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?
(a) Because living and reproducing do not require self-understanding.
(b) Because models of brain activity do not replicate the sense of 'being there' inside the brain.
(c) Because consciousness is always shifting and cannot be modeled.
(d) Because scientists are limited in the experiments they can perform on human beings.

3. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?
(a) Compassion and empathy.
(b) Curiosity and creativity.
(c) Mathematics and industrialism.
(d) Justice and equality.

4. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science can show us how our impressions are created by our feelings.
(b) Science can reveal the extent of human powerlessness.
(c) Science can give us better stories to tell about psychological nature.
(d) Science can expand the limits of what we can see.

5. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?
(a) Eating and moving.
(b) Sleep and arousal.
(c) Reason.
(d) Primitive desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?

2. How many genes does the brain consist of?

3. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?

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

5. What is consilience?

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