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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 Edmund Wilson say cultures are made of?
(a) Groups of language users.
(b) Genetic pools.
(c) The highest expressions of symbolic language in art.
(d) Linked compositions of myths and symbols.

2. How does Transcendentalism validate ethics?
(a) It treats the conscience as evidence of innate morality.
(b) It describes the individual as the source of all morality.
(c) It ascribes natural law to God's will.
(d) It locates the moral reasoning in God, which is to say in everything.

3. What will the combination of the arts and sciences ultimately create?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) The evolution of the brain.
(c) The genetic source of imagination.
(d) The revelation of the source of creativity.

4. How many disorders are caused by genes?
(a) 120.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 1,200.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are epigenetic rules?

2. What do modern technologies give humans the ability to choose?

3. What field does culture need to be linked with, in order to be explained, according to Wilson?

4. How does postmodern influence portray existence?

5. How many billion people can the earth sustain, theoretically?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ethical perspective does Wilson call the Transcendental view?

2. What does Wilson say the liberal arts should address?

3. How do the senses function as epi-genetic rules?

4. How does Wilson describe the universality of art?

5. What ethical perspective does Wilson call the empiricist view?

6. What is the consilient view of religious ethics?

7. In what way are epi-genetic rules cross-cultural?

8. What is the purpose of the social sciences, and how does Wilson distinguish the social sciences from the physical social sciences?

9. What social science does Wilson credit with coming closest to consilience?

10. How do patterns in mental development connect genes to culture?

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