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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 interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents man's daring.
(b) It represents the value of learning over freedom.
(c) It represents man's tragic nature.
(d) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.

2. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.
(b) To separate humanities from natural science.
(c) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(d) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.

3. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(b) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
(c) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.
(d) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.

4. What does natural consilience connect?
(a) Time and change.
(b) Language and culture.
(c) Heredity and culture.
(d) Language and genetics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does natural selection provide for a species?

2. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?

3. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?

4. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?

5. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?

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