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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.
(b) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(c) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.
(d) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.

2. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In environmental policy.
(b) In politics.
(c) In the future.
(d) In philosophy.

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

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

5. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Humanities.
(c) Arts.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?

3. What religion was Wilson born into?

4. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

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

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