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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, in Edmund Wilson's account, was moral reasoning affected by natural science?
(a) Natural laws dispelled taboos.
(b) Natural law created natural rights.
(c) Natural laws clarified the location of the moral sense.
(d) Natural laws helped establish social laws.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say wars are products of?
(a) Resources and demand.
(b) Political failures.
(c) Technological imbalances.
(d) Genes and culture.

3. What is consilience?
(a) An agreed approach to different subjects.
(b) A proposal for reorganizing departments of knowledge.
(c) An underlying pattern that tends toward unification.
(d) A historical basis for unifying fields of study.

4. What is critical to the development of culture, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Artistic complexities.
(b) Genetic complexities.
(c) Environmental complexities.
(d) Linguistic complexities.

5. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?
(a) In limited experiments.
(b) In snapshots.
(c) In real-time analysis.
(d) In behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

2. What does natural consilience connect?

3. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?

4. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

5. How does consilience work?

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