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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the empiricist view ethical reasoning?
(a) As a series or rejections of childish language.
(b) As a series of innate contradictions.
(c) As a series of choices.
(d) As a series of struggles within the self.

2. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?
(a) He sees a tendency toward adaptation to environment.
(b) He sees a punctuated equilibrium.
(c) He sees a tendency toward complexity.
(d) He sees the role of blind chance marring the evolutionary record.

3. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?
(a) Questions about the effect of environment on individuals.
(b) Questions about things beyond our auditory range.
(c) Questions about the nature of matter.
(d) Questions about the mind's capabilities.

4. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The civilizing force of discipline.
(b) The therapeutic force of society.
(c) The nurturing force of the environment.
(d) The damaging force of society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?

2. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

3. What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account?

4. What does the concept of God do, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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

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