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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 does Wilson say he was searching for as a young man?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Mythical experience.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Objective reality.

2. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As instinctive teamwork.
(b) As released pheromones.
(c) As socially conditioned.
(d) As electrochemical resonance.

3. What might be a consequence of the unification of knowledge, in Wilson's account?
(a) A better understanding of ourselves.
(b) A new sense of what divides mankind against itself.
(c) New fields of exploration.
(d) Streamlined education.

4. What are social scientists lacking, according to Wilson?
(a) Purpose and drive.
(b) Unity and vision.
(c) Funding.
(d) Relationships with the humanities.

5. What evolution creates culture?
(a) Environment.
(b) Theories of representation.
(c) Genetics.
(d) Symbolic language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson define ethics?

2. How many genes does the brain consist of?

3. What does Wilson distinguish between?

4. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?

5. What is the weakness of the current era of economics, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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