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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 cannot be expressed by brain imaging, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Reactions to art.
(b) Traits responsible for art.
(c) The genetic predisposition toward artistic work.
(d) The locus of artistic appreciation.

2. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Idealism.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Mysticism.

3. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?
(a) Technological influences.
(b) Epigenetic rules.
(c) Language.
(d) The environment.

4. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?
(a) As symbols of eternal life.
(b) As symbols of divinity.
(c) As symbols of destruction and re-creation.
(d) As symbols of the old order of gods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does natural selection provide for a species?

2. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

3. What does Wilson say he was searching for as a young man?

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

5. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

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