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

2. How does Transcendentalism justify war, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Each side relies on unifying logic.
(b) Each side refers to nature for their authority to fight.
(c) Each side describes their cause as sacred.
(d) Each side poses as protecting an individual's rights.

3. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They are not related.
(b) They misinterpret each other's work.
(c) They obfuscate each other's work.
(d) They have a mutually supportive role.

4. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) In refusing to accept statistical modeling of individual behavior.
(b) In describing the arts as strictly cultural.
(c) In describing the brain as chaotic.
(d) In rooting creativity in social behavior.

5. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Arts.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

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

3. What did Condorcet pioneer?

4. What can biological research do for complexity theory, in Wilson's account?

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe the current era of economics?

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