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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. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?
(a) Optics, and the ability to measure.
(b) Vaccines, and the ability to heal.
(c) Generators, and the ability to create power.
(d) Hydraulics, and the ability to transfer power.

2. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?
(a) The death of de Sade.
(b) The birth of Wordsworth.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The American Revolution.

3. What did Laplace pioneer?
(a) The notion of inalienable human rights.
(b) The use of probability in physics.
(c) The use of statistics in politics.
(d) The use of telescopes in astronomy.

4. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?
(a) The history of science.
(b) Systems of explaining phenomena.
(c) The foundations of different sciences.
(d) Elements of systems.

5. What is kin selection?
(a) The process by which parents decide which child to favor.
(b) The survival strategy by which people care most deeply for their kin.
(c) The process by which people choose mates.
(d) The strategy by which a family gives itself the best chance of expanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?

2. What causes economic theories to fail, in Edmund Wilson's estimation?

3. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?

4. What does Wilson use the discussion of the unity of species to prepare for?

5. What has research on the mind had to focus on?

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