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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of original traumas.
(b) The role of infant sexual experience.
(c) The role of the unconscious.
(d) The role of the self's desire for power.

2. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?
(a) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.
(b) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(c) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.
(d) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.

3. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In epistemology.
(b) In the history of knowledge.
(c) In social sciences and humanities.
(d) In religion.

4. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?
(a) In the mid-brain.
(b) In the fore-brain.
(c) There is no center of consciousness.
(d) In the hind-brain.

5. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?
(a) Questions about the mind's capabilities.
(b) Questions about things beyond our auditory range.
(c) Questions about the effect of environment on individuals.
(d) Questions about the nature of matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?

2. How does consilience work?

3. What does Wilson distinguish between?

4. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wilson use evolution as a parallel for consilience?

2. What does consilience provide as an educational policy?

3. How would you describe Condorcet's influence on Wilson's idea of consilience?

4. In what way does Wilson distinguish between evolutionary progress and consilience?

5. What does Wilson offer as an alternative to scientific knowledge and consilience?

6. What is reductionism, and what makes it useful for science?

7. How did Wilson arrive at his theory of consilience?

8. How is knowledge accepted as settled, or final?

9. What does the term "consilience" mean?

10. How does Wilson describe the mindset necessary to be a scientist?

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