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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. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By reconstructing them from cells.
(b) By examining their environment.
(c) By examining their organization.
(d) By seeing their evolution.

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

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

4. What do the arts need science for?
(a) To fulfill artistic prophecies.
(b) To demonstrate the truth of artistic visions.
(c) To stimulate interpretation.
(d) To test artistic theories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

2. How does Wilson describe ant colonies?

3. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

4. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?

5. What does Edmund Wilson say cultures are made of?

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