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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?
(a) They can be eliminated through military science.
(b) They are more complex than physics.
(c) They can be unraveled by computers.
(d) They can be modeled by animal cultures.

3. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?
(a) It appropriated church lands for the people.
(b) It concentrated wealth in a small group's hands.
(c) It led to the rise of Napoleon.
(d) It tried to improve educational opportunities.

4. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The birth of Wordsworth.
(c) The death of de Sade.
(d) The American Revolution.

5. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Interconnected.
(b) Fragmented.
(c) Irreconcilable.
(d) Unified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?

2. What are epigenetic rules?

3. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?

4. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

5. How much will sea levels theoretically rise if the ice caps melt?

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