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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 causes a change in traits?
(a) Mutation of several genes, plus an environmental change.
(b) Environmental changes that make a trait more desirable.
(c) The process of survival that makes a new trait more common.
(d) Mutation of one gene.

2. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By examining their environment.
(b) By examining their organization.
(c) By reconstructing them from cells.
(d) By seeing their evolution.

3. What methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Deduction and analysis.
(b) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(c) Experiential learning and induction.
(d) Induction and synthesis.

4. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Narratives.
(b) Science.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Myths.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the arts do that makes them different from the sciences, in Edmund Wilson's account?

2. How many disorders are caused by genes?

3. How does Transcendentalism justify war, in Edmund Wilson's account?

4. What is consilience?

5. What statistic shows the strength of the transcendental view, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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