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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 effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It ended the importance of religion.
(b) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(c) It changed the classification of animals.
(d) It changed the social order among men.

2. What cannot be expressed by brain imaging, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) The genetic predisposition toward artistic work.
(b) Reactions to art.
(c) The locus of artistic appreciation.
(d) Traits responsible for art.

3. What did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The use of statistics in politics.
(b) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(c) The use of telescopes in astronomy.
(d) The use of probability in physics.

4. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Past and future.
(b) Concept and fact.
(c) Natural science and social science.
(d) Material and ideal.

5. How many billion people live in absolute poverty, at the time of Wilson's writing?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) One half.
(d) One and a half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?

2. What role does Wilson ascribe to human nature?

3. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?

4. What does Wilson say matters in science?

5. Wilson defines culture in terms of what?

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