View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arts and their Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?
(a) They examined social behaviors as individual activities.
(b) They used science to analyze motives and trends in the mass.
(c) They described production as the result of supply and demand.
(d) They used statistics to model mass behaviors.

2. What role does Wilson ascribe to human nature?
(a) Changing what genetic expressions mean.
(b) Changing how genes create environments.
(c) Connecting genes to nature.
(d) Changing how language expresses genetics.

3. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?
(a) A discussion of the conscience and society.
(b) A discussion of the inevitability of progress.
(c) A discussion of the equality of genders.
(d) A discussion of the unity of sciences.

4. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Material and ideal.
(b) Past and future.
(c) Natural science and social science.
(d) Concept and fact.

5. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?
(a) Find the singularity at the beginning of the universe.
(b) Unify space, time and motion.
(c) Locate the missing mass in the universe.
(d) Express the universe in a mathematical formula.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem with sociology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

3. Where do the images of snakes in dreams likely come from, in Wilson's account?

4. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

5. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 338 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample