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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 causes a change in traits?
(a) Environmental changes that make a trait more desirable.
(b) Mutation of several genes, plus an environmental change.
(c) The process of survival that makes a new trait more common.
(d) Mutation of one gene.

2. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?
(a) Belief in the unity of species.
(b) Belief in a transcendent spirit.
(c) Belief in the multiplicity of forms.
(d) Belief in a historical process.

3. How many disorders are caused by genes?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 120.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 1,200.

4. What does Edmund Wilson say the arts ultimately create?
(a) Consilience.
(b) Science.
(c) Rituals and consistency.
(d) Religion.

5. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?
(a) It led to the rise of Napoleon.
(b) It appropriated church lands for the people.
(c) It tried to improve educational opportunities.
(d) It concentrated wealth in a small group's hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?

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

3. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

4. What does natural selection provide for a species?

5. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?

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