2. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?
(a) That scientific solutions are incomplete without the humanities.
(b) That it can reduce the need for science.
(c) That it can bring more peace to political conflicts.
(d) That it can resolve issues the sciences cannot answer.

3. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.
(b) It represents man's daring.
(c) It represents the value of learning over freedom.
(d) It represents man's tragic nature.

4. What methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Experiential learning and induction.
(b) Induction and synthesis.
(c) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(d) Deduction and analysis.

5. What purpose does Wilson say dreams serve?
(a) Telling the conscious self about the doings of its unconscious.
(b) Developing the soul through cathexes.
(c) Giving the self access to the collective unconscious.
(d) Improving responses relevant to survival.

6. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Order.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Freedom.

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

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

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

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

11. How does Wilson describe ant colonies?
(a) As the sum of their constituent ants.
(b) As a kind of controlled chaos.
(c) As superorganisms.
(d) As interdependent systems.

12. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As released pheromones.
(b) As socially conditioned.
(c) As instinctive teamwork.
(d) As electrochemical resonance.

13. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.
(b) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(c) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(d) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.

14. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?
(a) The unity of branches of knowledge.
(b) The unity of complex phenomena.
(c) The centrality of math in knowledge.
(d) The impossibility of any unified theories.

15. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?
(a) International relations.
(b) Conflict resolution.
(c) Urban planning.
(d) Biology and social sciences.