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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 political movement did Condorcet inspire?
(a) The abolition of slavery in French colonies.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The abolition of slavery in the New World.
(d) The French Revolution.

2. What does the concept of God do, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Clarify man's relationship with things whose origins are inexplicable.
(b) Ground the mind in its source.
(c) Unify the sciences and humanities.
(d) Open the mind to what is beyond it.

3. Where do the images of snakes in dreams likely come from, in Wilson's account?
(a) The mystic significance of snakes.
(b) The Bible story of the garden of Eden.
(c) The intuition of subterranean experience.
(d) A widespread fear of snakes.

4. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?
(a) Mythologies.
(b) Cultures.
(c) Galaxies.
(d) Languages.

5. Where can integrity be attained, according to Wilson?
(a) Through obedience to religion.
(b) Through the innate sense of moral reasoning.
(c) Through submission to tradition.
(d) Through acts that feel good and true.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

3. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

4. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?

5. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?

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