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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 explanation does Wilson offer for incest taboos?
(a) Incest undermines primogeniture.
(b) Incest relationships create genetic defects.
(c) Incest predisposes cultures to avoid war.
(d) Incest creates unrest in a culture.

2. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1742.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1776.

3. What were ethics constructed around, according to Wilson?
(a) The notion that human acts have consequences.
(b) The notion that human beings can be perfected.
(c) The notion that the gods observe human actions.
(d) The notion that justice is independent.

4. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In epistemology.
(b) In the history of knowledge.
(c) In social sciences and humanities.
(d) In religion.

5. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Thales of Miletus.
(d) Solon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the images of snakes in dreams likely come from, in Wilson's account?

2. What field does culture need to be linked with, in order to be explained, according to Wilson?

3. What has research on the mind had to focus on?

4. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?

5. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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