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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arts and their Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?
(a) It led to the rise of Napoleon.
(b) It tried to improve educational opportunities.
(c) It appropriated church lands for the people.
(d) It concentrated wealth in a small group's hands.

2. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Science.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Idealism.

3. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Order.

4. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?
(a) They used statistics to model mass behaviors.
(b) They examined social behaviors as individual activities.
(c) They described production as the result of supply and demand.
(d) They used science to analyze motives and trends in the mass.

5. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.
(b) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(c) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(d) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do science and the arts both originate, according to Wilson?

2. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?

3. What field of questions does Wilson say remain unanswered?

4. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?

5. How does Wilson describe ant colonies?

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