2. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has not been useful.
(b) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(c) It has created the conditions for unification.
(d) It has opened new fields.

3. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1742.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1776.

4. What does Wilson say matters in science?
(a) Publications.
(b) Hypothesis.
(c) Paradigm shifts.
(d) Final results.

5. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?
(a) A discussion of the conscience and society.
(b) A discussion of the inevitability of progress.
(c) A discussion of the equality of genders.
(d) A discussion of the unity of sciences.

6. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Objective truth based on hypothesis.
(b) Probably hypothesis.
(c) Interesting hypotheses.
(d) The mind of God.

7. What is reductionism?
(a) The use of abstractions and generalizations to explain phenomena.
(b) The analysis of the interrelation of all the parts of a system or problem.
(c) The analysis of components of a system or problem.
(d) The study of the context for a system or problem.

8. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?
(a) Theories.
(b) Hypotheses.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Something real.

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

10. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?
(a) Compassion and empathy.
(b) Justice and equality.
(c) Curiosity and creativity.
(d) Mathematics and industrialism.

11. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) de Sade.
(b) Locke.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Condorcet.

12. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(b) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(c) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(d) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.

13. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In the future.
(b) In politics.
(c) In environmental policy.
(d) In philosophy.

14. According to complexity theory, what is the result of living on the edge of chaos?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Extinction.
(d) Escalation.

15. How do nerve cells in the brain connect?
(a) Through synapses.
(b) Through neurons.
(c) Through axons.
(d) Through dendrites.