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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 does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The causes beneath their actions.
(b) The present moment.
(c) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(d) The urgency of nature.

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

3. How many cells comprise the brain?
(a) 100 billion.
(b) No one knows.
(c) 1 trillion.
(d) 100 million.

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

5. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Irreconcilable.
(b) Interconnected.
(c) Unified.
(d) Fragmented.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many genes does the brain consist of?

2. How do nerve cells in the brain connect?

3. What does Wilson distinguish between?

4. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?

5. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term "consilience" mean?

2. How does Wilson offer ants as a metaphor for consilience?

3. Why is consilience especially important in studying the mind?

4. What three-part division does Wilson divide the brain into?

5. How does science impact the arts, in E.O. Wilson's account?

6. How does Wilson offer the physical sciences as a metaphor for consilience?

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

8. How does Wilson offer dreams as an example of the need for consilience?

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

10. What does consilience provide as an educational policy?

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