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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Natural Sciences.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
2. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Material and ideal.
(b) Natural science and social science.
(c) Concept and fact.
(d) Past and future.
3. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?
(a) Culture was chaotic, history was self-organizing.
(b) Culture fostered the passions, history fostered reason.
(c) Culture was built forward, history was built backward.
(d) Culture followed laws, history evolved.
4. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?
(a) Systematics.
(b) Military organization.
(c) Systems theory.
(d) Dianetics.
5. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) Diplomacy.
(b) Racial supremacy.
(c) European supremacy.
(d) Human rights.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?
2. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?
3. What did Condorcet pioneer?
4. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?
5. What does Wilson distinguish between?
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