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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Genes to Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Eating and moving.
(c) Primitive desires.
(d) Sleep and arousal.

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

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

4. What does Wilson distinguish between?
(a) Religion and myth.
(b) Science and ethics.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Science and pseudo-science.

5. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?
(a) Descartes sense of consciousness' abstraction has been embraced by scientists who practice consilience.
(b) Descartes' dualism has been rejected.
(c) Modern science has centered on the role of doubt in awareness.
(d) The molecular work on the brain has completely surpassed anything Descartes theorized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?

2. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?

3. What did Laplace pioneer?

4. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?

5. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

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