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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?
(a) Find the singularity at the beginning of the universe.
(b) Locate the missing mass in the universe.
(c) Unify space, time and motion.
(d) Express the universe in a mathematical formula.

2. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?
(a) It changed the social order among men.
(b) It revealed the mechanism of God's working.
(c) It changed the classification of animals.
(d) It ended the importance of religion.

3. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) War.
(b) Greed.
(c) Crime and poverty.
(d) Reason and politeness.

4. What does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?
(a) Change over time.
(b) The history of things.
(c) The world in its true state.
(d) The state of grace.

5. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the material world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

2. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

3. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

4. How did Locke distinguish between culture and history?

5. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

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