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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 force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
(a) The damaging force of society.
(b) The nurturing force of the environment.
(c) The civilizing force of discipline.
(d) The therapeutic force of society.

2. What did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The use of statistics in politics.
(b) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(c) The use of telescopes in astronomy.
(d) The use of probability in physics.

3. What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account?
(a) Radicalism.
(b) Industry.
(c) Other sciences.
(d) Religious controversy.

4. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?
(a) He was monomaniacally focused on childhood sexual trauma.
(b) He uses mental patients for his experiments.
(c) He experimented with cocaine.
(d) He didn't test his hypotheses.

5. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By examining their organization.
(b) By reconstructing them from cells.
(c) By seeing their evolution.
(d) By examining their environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say matters in science?

2. What is the traditional view of art?

3. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

4. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?

5. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?

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