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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To What End?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Evolution and genetics.
(b) Epistemology and religion.
(c) Classification and evolution.
(d) Philosophy and evolution.

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

3. Who does Wilson offer as evidence of thinkers affected by the concept of natural rights?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Robespierre.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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

5. What is the social cost of violating the incest taboo?
(a) Disenfranchisement.
(b) Failure to adapt and survive.
(c) Unfit offspring.
(d) Legal punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do hereditarians see the evolution of culture?

2. What were the first artistic images of animals intended to evoke, according to Wilson?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?

4. How does consilience work?

5. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

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