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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 statistic shows the strength of the transcendental view, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) 35% of Americans are freethinking atheists.
(b) 90% of Americans believe in God.
(c) 60% of Americans believe that man is a god in ruins.
(d) 40% of Americans believe in original sin.

2. How do hereditarians see the evolution of culture?
(a) As a change in brain chemistry.
(b) As an emergence of the world spirit.
(c) As the result of nature.
(d) As the result of environmental factors.

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

4. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?
(a) It provides evidence of aristocracy.
(b) It tests the laws.
(c) It produces heroes and giants.
(d) It produces scapegoats and criminals.

5. What do modern technologies give humans the ability to choose?
(a) The color of children's skin.
(b) The shape of their children's heads.
(c) The genetic superiority of a race.
(d) The direction of human evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Condorcet born?

2. According to complexity theory, what is the result of living on the edge of chaos?

3. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

4. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?

5. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?

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