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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 says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?
(a) Eating and moving.
(b) Primitive desires.
(c) Sleep and arousal.
(d) Reason.

2. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Idealism.
(c) Science.
(d) Mysticism.

3. What does Wilson say matters in science?
(a) Final results.
(b) Hypothesis.
(c) Paradigm shifts.
(d) Publications.

4. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As instinctive teamwork.
(b) As socially conditioned.
(c) As electrochemical resonance.
(d) As released pheromones.

5. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They are made to define eternal laws.
(b) They can be discarded if disproved.
(c) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.
(d) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?

2. How many disorders are caused by genes?

3. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

4. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

5. When was Condorcet born?

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