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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariadne's Thread.

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) Hydraulics, and the ability to transfer power.
(c) Generators, and the ability to create power.
(d) Vaccines, and the ability to heal.

2. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?
(a) 17,000 Frenchmen were killed.
(b) Napoleon rose to power.
(c) The French went to war with Russia.
(d) The French undermined their own revolution.

3. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1789.

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?
(a) It represents man's tragic nature.
(b) It represents the value of learning over freedom.
(c) It represents man's daring.
(d) It represents the benefit of age and wisdom.

5. What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account?
(a) Radicalism.
(b) Religious controversy.
(c) Other sciences.
(d) Industry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Wilson take up the example of dreams?

3. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

4. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

5. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?

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