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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. Wilson defines culture in terms of what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Language.
(c) Genes.
(d) Environment.

2. What do the arts do that makes them different from the sciences, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Prophesying laws, instead of revealing them.
(b) Register sensations, instead of generating them.
(c) Implicate qualities, instead of defining them.
(d) Generate sensations, instead of measuring them.

3. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?
(a) It produces scapegoats and criminals.
(b) It tests the laws.
(c) It provides evidence of aristocracy.
(d) It produces heroes and giants.

4. What does natural selection provide for a species?
(a) New genetic combinations.
(b) More diverse genetic options.
(c) Fewer dominant individuals.
(d) More mating possibilities.

5. What are epigenetic rules?
(a) Influences that affect the expression of genes.
(b) The language in which culture expresses itself.
(c) The process of selecting which genes are most desirable in an environment.
(d) The cultural effect on genetic expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between primary and secondary emotions?

2. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?

3. What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account?

4. What is kin selection?

5. When was Condorcet born?

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