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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 declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Greed.
(b) War.
(c) Crime and poverty.
(d) Reason and politeness.

2. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They can be discarded if disproved.
(b) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.
(c) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.
(d) They are made to define eternal laws.

3. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science.
(b) Myths.
(c) Narratives.
(d) Humanities.

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

5. How do nurturists see the evolution of culture?
(a) As result of language.
(b) As a result of genetics.
(c) As a result of environment.
(d) As a complex interplay of environment and language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the nerve cells in the brain called?

2. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

3. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?

4. How many disorders are caused by genes?

5. What does Edmund Wilson say the arts ultimately create?

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