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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 will the combination of the arts and sciences ultimately create?
(a) The genetic source of imagination.
(b) Transcendence.
(c) The evolution of the brain.
(d) The revelation of the source of creativity.

2. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Synapses.
(b) Axons.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Neurons.

3. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In philosophy.
(b) In the future.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In politics.

4. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The urgency of nature.
(b) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(c) The present moment.
(d) The causes beneath their actions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?

2. What does Wilson say matters in science?

3. How do hereditarians see the evolution of culture?

4. What religion was Wilson born into?

5. What is gene-culture evolution?

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