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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arts and their Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say is the purpose of the social science?
(a) To Keep suppressed cultures alive.
(b) To reveal the hidden meanings in people's actions.
(c) To demonstrate how to conquer other cultures.
(d) To provide a way to control the future.

3. What does Edmund Wilson say is the logic behind consilience?
(a) Mutual interpretation of arts and sciences.
(b) Interpretation of art by science.
(c) Generation of science by art.
(d) Interdependence of art and humanities.

4. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Humanities.
(c) Arts.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?
(a) Systems of explaining phenomena.
(b) Elements of systems.
(c) The foundations of different sciences.
(d) The history of science.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do widely distributed cultural traits affect genes?

2. What cannot be expressed by brain imaging, in Edmund Wilson's account?

3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

4. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

5. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?

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