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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes economic theories to fail, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?
(a) Lack of integration with religion.
(b) Reliance on statistical analysis instead of creative synthesis.
(c) Lack of integration with psychology.
(d) Aloofness from the social environment.

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

3. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?
(a) In real-time analysis.
(b) In limited experiments.
(c) In snapshots.
(d) In behavior.

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

5. Which social science does Edmund Wilson say is best situated to bridge the gap between natural science and social science?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Economics.
(c) Political science.
(d) Anthropology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?

2. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

3. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?

4. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?

5. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?

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