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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 can biological research do for complexity theory, in Wilson's account?
(a) Demonstrate how layers of complexity interact.
(b) Demonstrate how many variables influence a cell's functioning.
(c) Demonstrate how the cell has adapted to the numerous variables that influence its functions.
(d) Demonstrate how the cell is a unified organism.

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

3. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Southern Baptism.
(d) Protestantism.

4. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?
(a) As symbols of destruction and re-creation.
(b) As symbols of the old order of gods.
(c) As symbols of divinity.
(d) As symbols of eternal life.

5. What were the first artistic images of animals intended to evoke, according to Wilson?
(a) Myths.
(b) Gods.
(c) Real events.
(d) Spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Condorcet born?

2. What does Edmund Wilson say is the purpose of the social science?

3. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?

4. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

5. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?

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