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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. How many disorders are caused by genes?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 120.
2. What are effective ethical codes based on?
(a) Inherited custom.
(b) Religion.
(c) Scientific laws.
(d) Objective knowledge.
3. What field does culture need to be linked with, in order to be explained, according to Wilson?
(a) Language.
(b) Economics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Natural sciences.
4. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?
(a) Technological influences.
(b) Epigenetic rules.
(c) Language.
(d) The environment.
5. What evolution creates culture?
(a) Symbolic language.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Environment.
(d) Theories of representation.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much will sea levels theoretically rise if the ice caps melt?
2. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?
3. What is kin selection?
4. What does Edmund Wilson say the arts ultimately create?
5. What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does ethics come from, in E.O. Wilson's account?
2. What social science does Wilson credit with coming closest to consilience?
3. What ethical perspective does Wilson call the empiricist view?
4. How do the senses function as epi-genetic rules?
5. What is the purpose of the social sciences, and how does Wilson distinguish the social sciences from the physical social sciences?
6. In what way are epi-genetic rules cross-cultural?
7. What social problems does Wilson say are caused by failures in social sciences?
8. How do social factors influence genetic distribution?
9. What is the fundamental assumption behind consilience?
10. What are the two branches of anthropology Wilson describes, and what question does he say they both fail to answer?
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